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La commedia - Dante Alighieri
€1,200.00Over 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.
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Conferenza Nobel - Pablo Neruda
€680.00Limited 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
€280.00Limited edition of 135 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
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.
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Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni (1500-1588)
€460.00Limited edition of 16 copies typeset by hand in 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.
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CONVIVIO - Dante Alighieri
€320.00Original 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.
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Aldo Novarese
€80.00Limited edition of 50 numbered copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
This booklet is a homage to Italian type designer Aldo Novarese in the centenary of his birth (1920-2020). It has been typeset by hand in types he designed, which were cast by Nebiolo Foundry in Turin.
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Giulio Da Milano creatore di tipi
€120.00Limited edition of 120 copies typeset by hand and letterpress-printed.
First and comprehensive typographic tribute to one of the most inventive 20th-century Italian type designers who created four iconic typefaces. -
Alessandro Butti creatore di tipi
€100.00Limited 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
€280.00Limited 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.
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Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni
€280.00Limited edition of 118 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
A debate between advocates of the ongoing superiority of Latin and Greek, and proponents of vernacular, already fully affirmed in the 16th century, celebrates the beauty and the full dignity of the Italian language.
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Il Cantico dei Cantici
€120.00Limited 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.
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Manuale Tipografico I - Enrico Tallone et al.
€0.00– PRICE ON REQUEST – STILL AVAILABLE BY CONTACTING THE PRINTER –
Limited edition of 249 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.
The Manuali Tipografici by Tallone are the only ones typeset by hand two hundred years after Fournier and Bodoni's homonymous masterpieces.
