Catalog

  • Giulio Da Milano creatore di tipi

    €120.00

    First and comprehensive typographical tribute to one of the most inventive 20th-century Italian type designers, who created the following four iconic typefaces: Neon, Mecano, Fregio Razionale, and Veltro. 

    A booklet of 12 pages (18x27 cm) typeset by hand in the original metal movable type cast in the 1930s.
    Limited edition of 180 copies.

  • Alessandro Butti creatore di tipi

    €100.00
    Limited edition of 300 copies typeset by hand in movable types and letterpress-printed. 
    First and comprehensive tribute to the most prominent Italian type designer in the period 1930-1950s and his very successful types. 

  • KUPAHÚBA, canto della foresta Amazzonica

    €280.00
    Limited edition of 320 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    Collection of inedited poems by Márcia Theóphilo, dedicated to the Amazon Forest, where the author spent her infancy, living there with her grandmother.

    As an anthropologist and a writer, she contributes to preserve the oral culture of the Indian tribes

    Includes an etching by Aldo Turchiaro.

  • STABAT MATER. DIES IRÆ. DEUX CONTREPOINTS

    €6,000.00

    Limited edition of 60 copies typeset by hand in movable metal types. The hand-typesetting of Gregorian chant notation makes this edition an exceptional endeavor in contemporary fine printing.
    Dedicated to Gregorian Chants "Stabat Mater” and “Dies Irae”, this edition includes two inedited poems in French by Jean-Luc Nancy and six silk-screen prints by Claudio Parmiggiani, made expressly for this edition.

  • Il Cantico dei Cantici

    €120.00

    Limited edition of 356 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. 

  • Manuale Tipografico I - Enrico Tallone et al.

    €0.00

    – PRICE ON REQUEST STILL AVAILABLE BY CONTACTING THE PRINTER –  

    Limited edition of 393 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

    Dedicated to the aesthetic of title-pages and capital letters. Includes original specimens from the 1930s onwards.



    The set of the Manuali Tipografici was typeset by hand in metal movable type two hundred years after Fournier and Bodoni's homonymous masterpieces. 
    One by one, each sort was arranged on the composing stick to form the words and the lines of text. The text type is 12-point Tallone, designed by Alberto Tallone, hand-cut on steel punches by Charles Malin in Paris, and cast by Radiguer in 1949. The set of the Manuali Tipografici is made up of more than a thousand text-pages.

  • Libroinfinito

    €900.00

    Print 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.

  • "2000" - Pablo Neruda

    €180.00

    Limited edition of 320 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    Nine poems, about the future and the incoming new millennium, that Neruda sent to the Tallone Press.

    Bilingual Spanish-Italian edition.

  • Le avventure di Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi

    €600.00

    The 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.

  • La Genesi

    €170.00
    Limited edition of 500 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
    First book of the Bible and the Torah, Genesis is the story of the origin of the world and mankind according to Christian and Jewish faith. 
    Foreword by Monsignor Gianfranco Ravasi. Text edited by the Italian Bishops’ Conference.
  • Visioni della vita rapita – Davide Rondoni

    €300.00

    Limited edition of 120 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress printed.

    First Italian anthology of Davide Rondoni’s poetry. It includes 50 poems, out of which 16 are unedited.



  • Leonardo da Vinci's resume

    €5,000.00

    Limited edition of 24 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter.

    Each includes a drypoint etching by Giuseppe Penone, signed and numbered.

    The first modern curriculum vitae, written by Leonardo da Vinci to the Duke in Milan, proves to be a document of rare effectiveness. Its ten-point structure describes a man so versatile and polymath that it would be difficult for any other candidate to compete with that.