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  • improbabile chimera - s. bandirali

    €250.00

    Collection of 7 poems, dedicated to Dino Campana and his love for Sibilla Aleramo.

    73 copies letterpress printed. Texts have been set by hand in original foundry types. Woodcut by Edoardo Fontana.

  • 19th-century type design - specimen book (vol. 1)

    €720.00

    The 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.

  • Sonnet - Leonardo da Vinci

    €35.00
    Sonnet improvised by Leonardo in front of Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan.

  • Trattato della vita elegante - Balzac

    €2,800.00
    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.
    Copies from 1/20 to 20/20 each include a different silk-screen print by Giulio Paolini.
    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.



  • 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.

  • Hippocratic Oath

    €40.00

    The earliest and most relevant expression of medical ethics in the Western world.

    The perfect gift for physicians, who, in these times of pandemic, are more than ever invested with high responsibility. 

    Limited edition typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Recueillement - Charles Baudelaire

    €60.00
    Sonnet from the collection “Le fleurs du mal”.
    Typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.
    Glass and wood frame with a single hook for vertical hanging. The frame is gilded with genuine gold leaf.
  • THE HORSES´ PRAYER

    €60.00
    Found in England upon a horse manger.
    Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.
    Glass and wood frame with a single hook for vertical hanging. The frame is gilded with genuine gold leaf.
  • Do it anyway - Saint Teresa of Calcucca

    €40.00
    Found written on the wall in Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta, these precepts informed Mother Teresa’s own life and choices.
    Typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.

  • Italian wood types - specimen book 2/2

    €720.00
    The 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.
  • Sator Arepo

    €60.00
    The renowned Christian palindrome, which hides the "Our Father" prayer, which became a powerful talisman during Middle Ages, and was found engraved all across the continent, from England to Syria.
    Typeset by hand in movable types, and printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.

  • Sonnet - UGO FOSCOLO

    €60.00
    Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, printed  letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.
    Glass and wood frame with a single hook for vertical hanging.