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ULYSSES - HOMER, DANTE, TENNYSON
€200.00Collection of outstanding verses dedicated to the most enduring hero of the Western imagination, Ulysses, who embodies par excellence the spirit of inquiry and the thirst for knowledge. The verses are taken from Homer's Odyssey, Dante's Divine Comedy and Alfred Tennyson's Ulysses.
Limited edition of 120 numbered copies typeset by hand in moveable metal types, letter by letter, and letterpress printed on pure cotton paper made in Tuscany.
Printed on behalf of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its first publication (Aristotle's Poetics, 1974).
The original texts in Greek and in English are followed by the Italian translation.
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20th-century type design - specimen book (Vol. IV)
€520.00Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers.
This unique type specimen book allows to see types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in the original foundry types, cast between the 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.
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VEINTE POEMAS DE AMOR - P. NERUDA
€580.00It includes an original graphic print by Ugo Nespolo, made expressly for this edition.
Language: Spanish and Italian.
Few copies of this book are now on sale in conjunction with the celebrations for the centenary of the first edition (1924-2024).
This collection of poems gained Neruda international recognition. It was published in Santiago, Chile in 1924, when the Poet was twenty years old. The collection includes some of Neruda's most famous poems, among which Cuerpo de mujer, Te recuerdo como eras, Me gustas cuando callas.
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corinto - Lorenzo de' Medici, young poet
€150.00
Language: Italian.
183 copies typeset by hand in movable metal type, of which:.145 printed on laid Magnani paper made in Pescia, Tuscany (150 €);
.19 printed on Amatruda paper made in Amalfi (280 €);
.11 printed on Hodomura paper made in Japan (550 €);
.4 printed on Magnani handmade* in Pescia, Tuscany. Sold out (600 €);
.3 printed on Hosho paper handmade* in Japan (800 €);
.only copy on textured Magnani paper (not for sale).
(*) Every sheet is individually handmade.
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19th-century type design - specimen book (vol. 2)
€720.00The masterpieces of 19th-century type design.
A collection of 50 specimens typeset by hand in original 19th-century movable metal types.
Limited and numbered edition of 150 copies.
This unique type specimen book allows you to see 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 1800’s and 1890’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.
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Lamine d'oro orfiche
€300.00Limited edition of 8 copies typeset by hand in original 19th-century movable types.
The ‘Orphic’ gold tablets are tiny scraps of gold foils engraved with precepts meant as instructions to enter the Afterlife. Those fascinating invocations are one of the first evidence of ancient Greek religion, and exerted a great influence on later Greek culture. -
LE COLLINE DEL PIACERE - Cesare Giaccone
€100.00After “Tre atti in cucina” (2020), “Five Ballets in the Kitchen” (2021) e “Nato coi tartufi” (2022), chef Cesare gifts us five more recipes, served with satisfaction in fifty years of cooking, accompanied by memories of life lived.
Limited edition of 139 numbered copies, typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
Cesare Giaccone from Langhe (Piedmont) is considered by the New York Times to be one of the absolute protagonists of contemporary haute cuisine.
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Significato del diario di bordo di Colombo
€170.00Few copies left, now on sale from the archives of the Printer.
Typeset by hand and printed letterpress in the fifth centenary year of the discovery of America (1492-1992).
The attractiveness of seas never seen before, the unknown ways of life, and the need to exalt and even exaggerate the qualities of the new lands to impress the King, all of this transforms what could have been an arid logbook into a testimony of exceptional importance. -
Supplemento estetico ai Manuali Tipografici
€0.00– PRICE ON REQUEST –
The "Supplement" expands and enriches the themes addressed in the previous five volumes of the set of the "Manuali Tipografici".
A volume in the 4to format (37x23 cm) of 144 pages typeset by hand in 12 pt Tallone type.
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Trattato della vita elegante - Balzac
€280.00Upon request and without additional charge, the book can be personalised with a printed inscription (i.e.: "Copy printed for John Doe”), to be typeset by hand and printed at the beginning of the book.Limited edition of 193 copies typeset by hand and letterpress printed.Balzac makes a shrewd and ironic critique of the bourgeois society born after the French Revolution, revealing all its ridiculousness and clumsiness. In fact, elegance belongs to few.Those who climb the rungs of the social ladder have to continually invent new forms of distinction. This resulting cyclical renewal is what we call fashion. -
La commedia - Dante Alighieri
€1,300.00Few copies left, now on sale at a special price.
Limited edition of 700 numbered copies. An edition in 3 volumes (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) printed by Alberto Tallone in 1967-68.
Over a million types were used for the hand typesetting of this edition.
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20th-century type design - specimen book (Vol. III)
€520.00Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers.
This unique type specimen book allows to see 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.