Catalog

  • Lamine d'oro orfiche - Angelo Tonelli

    €300.00

    Limited edition of 5 copies typeset by hand in original 19th-century movable types.

    Language: Greek and Italian.


    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.

  • NESSUN LUOGO E' ELEMENTARE - E. De Signoribus

    €100.00

    A collection of short stories and poems (some unpublished) by contemporary poet Eugenio De Signoribus, already winner of the Montale Prize (1989) and the Viareggio Prize (2008).

    The recurrent themes are childhood memories and family life, the figure of the woman and the mother, the fight for rights and freedom, the abuses of power.

    Limited edition of 200 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types. One by one, each sort was arranged on the composing stick to form the words. 
  • BOTO, IL DELFINO ROSA - M. THEÓPHILO

    €130.00

    AMAZONIAN TALE PRINTED IN FIRST EDITION

    Italian edition.

    One of the most beautiful Amazonian myths, embodied by a child whose innocence can save the future of the Forest.

    A tale with a strong ecological message, handed down orally in the Tupí-Guaraní tribes of the Amazon forest.
    Márcia Theóphilo spent her infancy in the Amazon forest, living there with her grandmother. 

    Márcia Theóphilo brings us the essence of Indian culture, which is based on the respect for nature. Today an established poet and anthropologist, she is now a candidate for the Nobel Prize.

    Limited edition of 170 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

  • Hippocratic Oath

    €60.00

    The Code of Medical Ethics is still inspired by the Hippocratic Oath, the first text to establish the ethical standards of the medical profession.

    Hippocrates (V-VI century BC) required his students to swear to respect their teachers, to teach medicine only to those who had sworn the same oath and to do that without reward, to visit the sick and treat them with the aim of healing and never using violence, to not prescribe deadly drugs even when requested, and to not divulge confidential information learned in the practice of their profession.

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

    The frame is gilded with genuine gold leaf.

  • hamlet - shakespeare

    €2,800.00

    (publication year: 1978)

    This copy comes from the collection of the printer.

    English edition. 

    Limited edition of 80 copies typeset by hand in movable types, which include a lithograph print by Fabrizio Clerici, loose in separate folder, signed and numbered. 

    One of the best plays of all time, and among the most represented ones.

  • Canti orfici - dino campana

    €2,900.00

    A collection of poems and short writings, sublime and barbaric at the same time.

    The following video, entitled διζησάμην μεωυτόν (“I tried to decipher myself”, Heraclitus), is intended as a tribute to Dino Campana, an author particularly dear to the Tallone family:


    A separate folder includes three unpublished letters by Dino Campana addressed to Eleonora Tallone and Sibilla Aleramo.

    Foreword by Davide Rondoni. Final note by Gigliola Tallone. 

    An edition limited to 173 copies. Texts were typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Canti orfici - dino campana

    €300.00

    A collection of poems and short writings, sublime and barbaric at the same time.

    The following video, entitled διζησάμην μεωυτόν (“I tried to decipher myself”, Heraclitus), is intended as a tribute to Dino Campana, an author particularly dear to the Tallone family:

    A separate folder includes three unpublished letters by Dino Campana addressed to Eleonora Tallone and Sibilla Aleramo.

    Foreword by Davide Rondoni. Final note by Gigliola Tallone. 

    An edition limited to 173 copies. Texts were typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Canti orfici - dino campana

    €680.00

    A collection of poems and short writings, sublime and barbaric at the same time.

    The following video, entitled διζησάμην μεωυτόν (“I tried to decipher myself”, Heraclitus), is intended as a tribute to Dino Campana, an author particularly dear to the Tallone family:

    A separate folder includes three unpublished letters by Dino Campana addressed to Eleonora Tallone and Sibilla Aleramo.

    Foreword by Davide Rondoni. Final note by Gigliola Tallone. 


    An edition limited to 173 numbered copies. Texts were typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Sonnet - Dante Alighieri

    €40.00

    Immortal poem about friendship.

    Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, and printed on cotton archival-quality paper.

    The sonnet is sealed in a clear-plastic sleeve personalized with the Tallone logo. The sleeve also contains a pH neutral passepartout cardboard.



  • TRATTATELLO IN LAUDE DI DANTE - BOCCACCIO

    €200.00

    Original 1969 edition. Few copies left, now on sale from the archives of the Printer.
    BOOK CONDITION: very good, without signs of wear. This copy comes from the printer’s collection, and it has never left the printer’s premises. 

    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.

  • 20th-century type design - 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 one to appreciate the 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.