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Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni (1500-1588)
€460.00Limited edition of 16 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
A debate between advocates of the ongoing superiority of Latin and Greek, and proponents of vernacular, celebrates the beauty and the full dignity of the Italian language.
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Types for Advertising - 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 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 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.
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types for Advertising - specimen book (VOL. I)
€520.00Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers.
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 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.
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Types for Advertising - specimen book (Vol. II)
€520.00Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers.
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 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.
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Italian wood types - specimen book 1/2
€580.00Type specimen book printed from wood types cut by hand in Italy between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Their kaleidoscopic expressiveness, either Apollonian or Dionysian, oldstyle or fanciful, reflects the scope of Italian creativity in the field of wood type engraving.
This edition is part of the collections of major libraries, in Italy and abroad.
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Le avventure di Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
€600.00The most famous Italian novel, letterpress-printed on light-blue pure-cotton paper (the same color as the hair of the Blue Fairy), mould-made in Sicily expressly for this edition.
Limited edition of 190 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.
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De Aetna Liber - Petri Bembi
€630.00Limited edition of 23 numbered copies typeset by hand in moveable types, letter by letter, and letterpress printed on pure cotton paper made 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. -
Canti orfici - dino campana
€680.00With three unpublished letters by Dino Campana.
Foreword by Davide Rondoni. Final note by Gigliola Tallone.
Limited edition of 28 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.
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Conferenza Nobel - Pablo Neruda
€680.00Limited edition of 60 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed. They include an original graphic print by Ugo Nespolo, made in stencil technique, signed and numbered.Edition in Italian language.One of the most memorable speech ever delivered by a Nobel laureate, it was held by Pablo Neruda in Stockholm at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony. In the speech Neruda recounts his escape through the Andes, an adventurous journey which becomes the metaphor of the mysterious path of Poetry.Neruda was awarded the Literature Nobel Prize in 1971; few months later, the first original edition of his moving speech was printed by the Tallone Press. At that time it was printed in Spanish, while this second edition is now printed in Italian. -
19th-century masterpieces of type design
€720.0019th-century masterpieces of type design created by the world’s foremost type designers.
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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Italian wood types - specimen book 2/2
€720.00The present alphanumeric series is printed from big, original wood types, which were handcrafted in Italy between 1850 and 1950 to be used on large broadsides.In fact, for over a century, opera and theatre plays, circus shows and fairs, political rallies and new movie releases were advertised using these iconic typefaces. -
Libroinfinito
€750.00Print run of 18 copies.
A tribute to the 26 letters of the alphabet which give form to Literature, Libroinfinito is designed so as to create a circular, 'infinite' reading experience. Design by Giulio Iacchetti & Tallone Press.This is one of 18 numbered copies printed on white "Umbria" paper handmade in Fabriano.
