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  • A discussion about printing - Anton F. Doni

    €150.00
    Limited edition of 250 numbered copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter.
    Bilingual English-Italian edition. First English appearance.
    Florence, late 15th century. An animated discussion takes place about the revolution prompted by the introduction of printing, in opposition to manuscript books. 
    The discussion reflects the opposite attitudes that, in recent times, have divided public opinion about paperless digital information and printing. The arguments are pretty much the same: aesthetic beauty versus economic convenience, nostalgia as opposed to practicality.



  • hamlet - shakespeare

    €2,800.00

    (publication year: 1978)

    This copy comes from the collection of the printer.

    English edition. 

    Limited edition of 80 copies typeset by hand in movable types, which include a lithograph print by Fabrizio Clerici, loose in separate folder, signed and numbered. 

    One of the best plays of all time, and among the most represented ones.

  • 20th-century type design - specimen book (VOL. I)

    €520.00

    Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers. 

    This unique type specimen book allows one to appreciate the types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in original foundry types, cast between the 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.

  • ITALIAN WOOD TYPES - BOXED SET 2/3

    €580.00

    Portfolio of 36 loose prints.

    This is the second boxed set of the “Archive of Styles - WOOD” series, ant it is dedicated to medium-sized (6 to 25 lines) Italian wood types. 

    The other two boxed sets are devoted to big (up to 118 lines) and small (up to 8 lines) Italian wood types, respectively. 

    This 36-character series is printed from wood types cut by hand in Italy between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century.

    For a century and a half, billboards and theater posters printed using wooden type had shaped the urban landscape of Italian streets and squares, giving them an unmistakable character.

    The size of the type blocks in this set ranges from 6 to 25 lines, equivalent to about 2,5 to 11 centimeters.

    Limited edition of 88 numbered copies.

  • SUMMARY - Pablo Neruda

    €240.00

    Few copies now on sell from the archives of the Printer.

    Twenty poems which depict salient experiences occurred in the childhood and youth of the Poet: his birth, the first voyage, his step-mother, his father, his first time at sea, …
    Limited edition of 87 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

  • 20th-century type design - specimen book (Vol. II)

    €520.00

    Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers. 

    This unique type specimen book allows one to appreciate types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in original foundry types, cast between the 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.

  • Aldo Novarese

    €80.00

    Limited edition of 50 numbered copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter.

    This 8-page booklet is a homage to Italian type designer Aldo Novarese in the centenary year of his birth (1920-2020).
    The types were used for the hand-typesetting were 
    Dattilo, Estro, Eurostile, Garaldus, Stop, Egizio, Forma. These were all designed by Novarese, and cast by Nebiolo Foundry in Turin. 

  • Manuale Tipografico II - Enrico Tallone et al.

    €0.00

    – PRICE ON REQUEST – STILL AVAILABLE BY CONTACTING THE PRINTER – 

    Limited edition of 386 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, and letterpress-printed.

    Dedicated to the aesthetics of page layouts, types and book formats.

  • Poems - Emily Dickinson

    €5,000.00

    This is one of 40 copies which include a lithograph print by Giulio Paolini expressly made for this book, signed and numbered.

    English edition. Collection of 130 poems by the ironic, solar New England poetess, one of the greatest poetical voices of all time.

  • Manuale Tipografico IV - Enrico Tallone et al.

    €0.00

    – PRICE ON REQUEST –
    – STILL AVAILABLE BY CONTACTING THE PRINTER – 

    Dedicated to the engraving, founding and printing techniques in favour of the aesthetic of the book. 

    Centuries of typographical civilization described through original ancient watermarks from the 16th century onwards, and specimens handset in original foundry types cast from the 17th century onwards.

  • Poems - Emily Dickinson

    €350.00

    Limited edition of 258 copies typeset by hand, numbered and letterpress printed.
    English edition.

    Collection of 130 poems by the ironic, solar New England poetess, one of the greatest poetical voices of all times.