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Do it anyway - Saint Teresa of Calcucca
€40.00Found written on the wall in Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta, these precepts informed Mother Teresa’s own life and choices.Typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany. -
Italian wood types - specimen book 2/2
€720.00The present alphanumeric series is printed from big, original wood types, which were handcrafted in Italy between 1850 and 1950 to be used on large broadsides.In fact, for over a century, opera and theatre plays, circus shows and fairs, political rallies and new movie releases were advertised using these iconic typefaces. -
Sator Arepo
€60.00The renowned Christian palindrome, which hides the "Our Father" prayer, which became a powerful talisman during Middle Ages, and was found engraved all across the continent, from England to Syria.Typeset by hand in movable types, and printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany. -
Sonnet - UGO FOSCOLO
€60.00Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.Glass and wood frame with a single hook for vertical hanging. -
L'INFINITO - GIACOMO LEOPARDI
€60.00The sonnet which most Italians know by heart.Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.Glass and wood frame gilded with genuine gold leaf, featuring a fold-away hook for vertical hanging. -
A discussion about printing - Anton F. Doni
€150.00Limited edition of 250 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.Bilingual English-Italian edition. First English appearance.Florence, late 15th century. An animated discussion takes place about the revolution prompted by the introduction of printing, in opposition to manuscript books.The discussion reflects the opposite attitudes that, in recent times, have divided public opinion about paperless digital information and printing. The arguments are pretty much the same: aesthetic beauty versus economic convenience, nostalgia as opposed to practicality. -
ΠΕΡΙ ΦΥΣΗΩΣ - ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ
€120.00Limited edition of 180 copies typeset by hand in original 19th-century types.Ancient Greek and Italian edition.«No printer is great if it does not print Greek. Without this effort it is impossible to serve Humanism. Because Humanism has two sources: Athens and Florence. Without these two corners of the world, it is not entirely certain that man would be able to get civilized, becoming a being able to oppose the immense power of individuality to mass action […]» Jean Zafiropulo. -
carmi - catullo
€110.00Limited edition of 470 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.«Artists like Catullus, Raphael, and Mozart have been assigned by gods the privilege of tracing unique paths, which have the fleeting and eternal traits of the perfect moment. It is no coincidence that the blaze of this miracle consumes the life of the chosen one in a short time» Carlo Saggio -
ΠΕΡΙ ΦΥΣΗΩΣ - ΑΝΑΞΑΓΟΡΟΥ
€120.00Limited edition of 190 copies typeset by hand in original 19th-century types.Ancient Greek and Italian edition.«No printer is great if it does not print Greek. Without this effort it is impossible to serve Humanism. Because Humanism has two sources: Athens and Florence. Without these two corners of the world, it is not entirely certain that man would be able to get civilized, becoming a being able to oppose the immense power of individuality to mass action […]» Jean Zafiropulo.
Known for his materialistic theories, the scientist and philosopher Anaxagoras (499-428 a. D.) is convinced that the world consists of an infinity of infinitesimal units that form all things, and that the sun is a burning rock. He taught in Athens for thirty years. -
NESSUN LUOGO E' ELEMENTARE - E. De Signoribus
€100.00A collection of poems and prose (some unpublished) by contemporary poet Eugenio De Signoribus, already winner of the Montale Prize (1989) and Viareggio Prize (2008).
Limited edition of 200 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed. -
BOTO, IL DELFINO ROSA - M. THEÓPHILO
€130.00AMAZONIAN TALE PRINTED IN FIRST EDITION
Last few copies available, on sale from the Publisher’s collection on occasion of the Author’s eightieth birthday.
One of the most beautiful Amazonian myths, embodied by a child whose innocence can save the fate of humanity.
Limited edition of 170 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
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the nocturnal train - pablo neruda
€280.00Limited edition of 48 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.
Tri-lingual edition (Spanish, Italian, and English).On the 13th December 1971 to Pablo Neruda was given the Nobel Prize of Literature.
Fifty years after the awarding (1971-2021), the choice to print "The Nocturnal Train" (from "Sumario. Libro donde nace la lluvia", Tallone Editore, 1963, first edition) is a way to pay homage to the Poet who, like his friend Alberto Tallone, was an enthusiastic lover of steam locomotives, an archetype of a liberated time, that of poetry and travel, as expression of knowledge and dynamism.
