quattro + 1 - simone bandirali
€300.00
Collection of 5 short poems.
As the author writes in the final note, "these five short cantos are fueled by the winds of renewal in poetic language that saw Nanni Balestrini as its tireless creator and interpreter”. In their suspended essentiality, the poems “encourage the reader to interpret […], in keeping with the new poetic sensibility introduced by Balestrini."
Print run of 75 copies printed letterpress. Texts were typeset by hand in original foundry type. One by one, each sort was arranged on the composing stick to form the words and the lines of text.
This booklet includes a woodcut by Adriano Porazzi, colored by Alberto Casiraghy.
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This is one of 10 copies numbered from I to X, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Sicily.
PRINT RUN
75 copies were printed, all of which include a woodcut cut by Adriano Porazzi, colored by Alberto Casiraghy.
Copies are divided as follows:
.72 printed on paper made in Aci Bonaccorsi, Sicily, of which: 60 copies numbered from 1 to 60, and 10 copies numbered from I to X; copies numbered from 1 to 18 include a further color drawing by Alberto Casiraghy;
.2 printed on Amatruda paper made in Amalfi;
.only copy printed on Magnani paper made in Pescia.
This is a booklet (16,5x27 cm) of 28 pages typeset by hand in pt 12 Tallone type and pt 10 Garamond.
Garamond type was hand-cut on punches by Henri Parmentier (beginning in 1914), and cast by Deberny & Peignot Foundry in Paris, which started marketing it in 1926.
The exclusive Tallone type, designed by Alberto Tallone, was hand-cut on steel punches by Charles Malin in Paris, and cast by Radiguer Foundry in 1949.
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Neither monotype nor linotype were used. These typesetting systems from a keyboard are often passed off as manual typography.
The Tallone Press does not print from plastic relief plates either. Derived from digital compositions, they are very much in vogue to simulate the effect of type impression onto the paper.
Printed on very fine paper and sewn by hand, this collector’s edition is a sophisticated gift meant to last over time and designed to give the best reading experience possible.
Data sheet
- Size (cm)
- 18x27
Collection of 5 short poems.
As the author writes in the final note, "these five short cantos are fueled by the winds of renewal in poetic language that saw Nanni Balestrini as its tireless creator and interpreter”. In their suspended essentiality, the poems “encourage the reader to interpret […], in keeping with the new poetic sensibility introduced by Balestrini."
Print run of 75 copies printed letterpress. Texts were typeset by hand in original foundry type. One by one, each sort was arranged on the composing stick to form the words and the lines of text.
This booklet includes a woodcut by Adriano Porazzi, colored by Alberto Casiraghy.