Italian Wood Type Specimen Books?

Christa Carleton
on 14 Apr 25 (23:00)

Ciao friends!
I was hoping to source some Italian Wood Type Specimen books. I definitely don’t have to budget to buy the real deal, so I figured a specimen book could be the next best thing—although the vintage books can also be quite spendy! I’d be chuffed to bits to have a newer issue book (reproduction), as I really just want to find inspiration from their Art Deco and Nouveau fonts.

Online searches have been less than fruitful! I prefer books rather than a conglomerate of websites with digital fonts. I like to have a thing I can peruse with a morning coffee on a Saturday. I’ve attached some images of the fonts I’m really enamored with thanks to following wonderful Italian letterpress printers on Instagram. This should give you an idea of what I’m after— the Italians really know their type design, I’m head over heels!

I hope to make a pilgrimage to Tipoteca one day, perhaps taking one of the summer workshops they have been offering. But until then I’d like to know if anyone in our community knows where a gal like me can get her hands on some specimens of Italian wood type in book format

Grazie Mille! (My Duolingo progress in Italian is very rudimentary)
-Christa