Catalog

  • 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.

  • 20th-century type design - 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 one to appreciate 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

    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. 

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


    Language: Italian.

    Upon request and without additional charge, subscribed copies can be personalised with an inscription (i.e.: "Copy printed for John Doe”) to be printed on the book.

  • 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).

  • La Copa de Sangre - Pablo Neruda

    €2,100.00

    FIRST ORIGINAL EDITION (1969)

    In Spanish. Limited edition of 470 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    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).

  • Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni

    €460.00

    Limited edition of 16 copies typeset by hand in metal 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.

    Upon request and without additional charge, subscribed copies can be personalised with an inscription (i.e.: "Copy printed for John Doe”) to be printed in the epigraph of the book.

  • 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.

  • Aldo Novarese

    €80.00

    Limited edition of 50 numbered copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter.

    This 8-page booklet is a homage to Italian type designer Aldo Novarese in the centenary year of his birth (1920-2020).
    The types were used for the hand-typesetting were 
    Dattilo, Estro, Eurostile, Garaldus, Stop, Egizio, Forma. These were all designed by Novarese, and cast by Nebiolo Foundry in Turin.