Catalog

  • Trattato della vita elegante - Balzac

    €280.00
    Upon 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.



  • KUPAHÚBA, canto della foresta Amazzonica

    €280.00
    Limited edition of 320 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    Collection of inedited poems by Márcia Theóphilo, dedicated to the Amazon Forest, where the author spent her infancy, living there with her grandmother.

    As an anthropologist and a writer, she contributes to preserve the oral culture of the Indian tribes

    Includes an etching by Aldo Turchiaro.

  • the nocturnal train - pablo neruda

    €280.00

    Limited edition of 48 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.
    Tri-lingual edition
    (Spanish, Italian, and English).

    On the 13th December 1971 to Pablo Neruda was given the Nobel Prize of Literature.


    Fifty years after the awarding (1971-2021), the choice to print "The Nocturnal Train" (from "Sumario. Libro donde nace la lluvia", Tallone Editore, 1963, first edition) is a way to pay homage to the Poet who, like his friend Alberto Tallone, was an enthusiastic lover of steam locomotives, an archetype of a liberated time, that of poetry and travel, as expression of knowledge and dynamism.

  • Sull’indole del piacere e del dolore - P. Verri

    €280.00

    Limited edition of 135 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    Pietro Verri (Milan 1728-1797) sheds light on the nature of human passions and the mechanisms of pleasure, anticipating the new theories of unconscious mental processes, which spur men to act in the pursuit of happiness. 

  • Lamine d'oro orfiche

    €300.00

    Limited 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.

  • Canti orfici - dino campana

    €300.00

    With three unpublished letters by Dino Campana.

    Foreword by Davide Rondoni. Final note by Gigliola Tallone. 

    Limited edition of 140 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Visioni della vita rapita – Davide Rondoni

    €300.00

    Limited edition of 120 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    First Italian anthology of Davide Rondoni’s poetry. It includes 50 poems, out of which 16 are unedited.

  • CONVIVIO - Dante Alighieri

    €320.00

    Original 1965 edition now on sale at a special price, in conjunction with the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death (1321-2021).

    Typeset by hand and printed letterpress by Alberto Tallone (1898-1968) in Alpignano, where the Press is still active today. 

    Limited edition of 700 numbered copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Leonardo da Vinci's resume

    €340.00

    The first modern ‘curriculum vitae’, written by Leonardo da Vinci to the Duke in Milan, proves to be a document of rare effectiveness.

  • 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.

  • Qohélet (o L'Ecclesiaste)

    €400.00

    Limited and numbered edition of 62 copies printed on pure cotton cream-colored Magnani paper made in Pescia, Tuscany.

    Italian edition of the Old Testament's "Ecclesiastes"
    New translation from Hebrew by Guido Ceronetti.

  • De Aetna Liber - Petri Bembi

    €430.00

    Limited edition of 46 numbered copies typeset by hand in moveable types, letter by letter, and letterpress printed on cotton paper made in Sicily with the groundwater from the volcano Etna

    Etching by Walter Valentini, signed and numbered, made expressly for this edition.

    This edition printed in Latin is a tribute to the famous incunabulum printed by Aldus Manutius in 1495, which is considered to be the first modern book.
    Bembo tells about his ascent to the top of the volcano Etna, during his stay in Sicily between 1492 and 1494, where he went to perfect his knowledge of Greek. This is one of the first description of the volcano ever made. The story is the background to a series of literary-scientific considerations and learned quotations from Latin and Greek classics.