Manuale Tipografico II - Enrico Tallone et al.

«The collection of the Manuali Tipografici printed by the Tallone Press is the most important historical-typographic endeavor since the second half of the twentieth century, the first in the world for quality, breadth, elegance and documentation» Michelle Delattes, CHARTA, 2019

Each volume of the set includes essays by researchers and scholars about different aspects of book design (types, formats, pagination, papers, inks). Texts alternate with tipped-in ancient specimens and paper samples from different epochs. Each paper sample is held in a window mount, to allow viewing against the light.

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A volume in the 4to format (cm 37x23), of 212 pages entirely typeset by hand in 12 pt Tallone type, designed by Alberto Tallone, hand-cut on punches by Charles Malin in Paris and cast by Radiguer in 1949.

INDEX (texts and specimens):
.essays by Lamberto Vitali, Marcel Beaudoire, Orio Vergani, Raffaele Carrieri, Jean Loize, John Dreyfus, Enrico Falqui, Giorgio Trentin, Umberto Favia, Emanuele Ferrari, Massimo Gatta, Francesco Saverio Dòdaro, Maurizio Nocera, Loris Jacopo Bononi;

.15 sheets and quartos extracted from Tallone books printed in France, from 1931 till 1959, and in Italy since then;

.an aesthetic commentary of the foundry types which belonged to Maurice Darantiere, Alberto Tallone and successors (text by Enrico Tallone);

.printed specimens of the alphabets of each one of the above mentioned foundry types;

.bibliographical records of the 18 books newly attributed to Alberto Tallone;

.12 original quartos and octavos extracted from Tallone books printed in Paris and Alpignano.


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PRINT RUN
386 copies were printed, of which:
260 copies on Magnani paper made in Tuscany; 
90 on Sicilian paper made of pure cotton; 
20 on hand- made ancient Fabriano tinted-colored paper; 
10 copies on white hand-made Umbria paper, made in Fabriano; 
6 copies on cream-colored hand-made Umbria paper, made in Fabriano. The volume is housed in a hand-made slipcase and box, custom made to an exact size, whose exteriors are covered with Ingres paper. The book title is letterpress-printed on the slipcase’s spine.