Italian wood types - specimen book
Tallone publishers, Italian Wood Types - Specimen Book alpha-numeric collectible series.
Manual engraving using gouges and burins makes each of these characters a unique piece. Sometimes carried out by highly prestigious xylographs (such as Salvati in Foligno), sometimes engraved by craftsmen who remained anonymous or by the printers themselves, they avoid the serial flavour produced by industrial quantities of mechanical characters on a pantograph.
Theatrical and cinematographic posters printed with these characters have coloured Italy’s streets and squares for over a century and a half, bringing a theatrical personality to the country’s urban areas in a unique and unmistakable way.
$ 735.00
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Tallone publishers, Italian Wood Types - Specimen Book alpha-numeric collectible series.
Manual engraving using gouges and burins makes each of these characters a unique piece. Sometimes carried out by highly prestigious xylographs (such as Salvati in Foligno), sometimes engraved by craftsmen who remained anonymous or by the printers themselves, they avoid the serial flavour produced by industrial quantities of mechanical characters on a pantograph.
Theatrical and cinematographic posters printed with these characters have coloured Italy’s streets and squares for over a century and a half, bringing a theatrical personality to the country’s urban areas in a unique and unmistakable way.
