Catalog

  • Sonnet - Dante Alighieri

    €40.00

    Immortal poem about friendship.

    Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, and printed on pure-cotton archival-quality paper expressly made in Dante’s Tuscany.

  • TRATTATELLO IN LAUDE DI DANTE - BOCCACCIO

    €200.00

    Few copies left, now on sale from the archives of the Printer.

    Original 1969 edition.

    The life of Dante, already a legend a few years after his death, narrated by the greatest storyteller of his time, the author of the “Decameron”.

    Limited edition of 600 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • types for Advertising - 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 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.

  • Italian wood types - specimen book 1/2

    €580.00

    Type 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.

  • Il Cantico dei Cantici

    €220.00

    Limited edition of 122 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    Famous love poem from the Bible in the form of a dialogue between a young woman and her lover. 

  • 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.

  • Types for Advertising - 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 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.

  • La commedia - Dante Alighieri

    €1,200.00

    Over a million types were used for the hand typesetting of this edition, which stands as a unique achievement in contemporary printing.

    Limited edition of 209 numbered copies. An edition in 3 volumes (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) housed in a handmade box.

    Italian edition.

  • Conferenza Nobel - Pablo Neruda

    €680.00
    Limited 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. 
  • 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. 

  • Discurso de Stockholm - Pablo Neruda

    €1,100.00

    FIRST ORIGINAL EDITION (1969)

    Limited edition of 270 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed. In Spanish.

    One of the most memorable speech ever delivered by a Nobel laureate.
    Moving speech held by Pablo Neruda in Stockholm at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony (1971).

    This copy, which comes from the printer’s collection, has been put on sale in conjunction with the 50th anniversary year of the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda (1971-2021).

  • Discurso de Stockholm - Pablo Neruda

    €3,200.00

    FIRST ORIGINAL EDITION (1972)

    Limited edition of 35 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed. In Spanish. 

    One of the most memorable speech ever delivered by a Nobel laureate.  

    Moving speech held by Pablo Neruda in Stockholm at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony.

    This copy, which comes from the printer’s collection, has been put on sale in conjunction with the 50th anniversary year of the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda (1971-2021).