Presentation of the volume “Alphabets of Wood. Luigi Melchiori & the history of Italian wood type”

Friday, January 23th 2015, at 8.30 pm at Tipoteca Auditorium

Alphabets of Wood. Luigi Melchiori & the history of Italian wood type is the first attempt to survey the hitherto unknown history of wood type in Italy. This book sprung from an encounter with the life and work of Luigi Melchiori, a skilled craftman who lived and worked during the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries in Crespano del Grappa – a small community at the foothills of the Alps in the Veneto Region. It is a tribute to a maker of alphabets of wood. The authors, James Clough and Chiara Scattolin, develop a private and professional artist’s profile, the history of the wood type and its progressive use in typography. The archive “Luigi Melchiori” is part of Tipoteca Italiana’s collections. The volume Alphabets of Wood. Luigi Melchiori & the history of Italian wood type is published by Tipoteca Italiana (2014).