La Nuova Italia. Strumenti

"Strumenti/Ristampe anastatiche" (instruments, anastatic reprints) inaugurated in 1973 with "Fenomenologia dello spirito" (Phenomenology of the spirit), in a re-edition of the 1960 translation by Enrico De’ Negri also published by La Nuova Italia. The series collects many reprints of works from the 1960s catalog, but also anastatic re-editions of different publishing houses (as in the case of "Charlemagne" by Joseph Calmette, published by the then disappeared Edizioni Da Silva in 1948) in an economical paperback format. It should be noted how the constraint in a pocket-sized and uniform format of editions of disparate sizes, often much larger, sometimes results in almost illegible paragraphs.

“La Nuova Italia relaunches on the market the most significant works of its catalog of high culture in anastatic reprints at a good price, as work tools for teachers, for students, for men of culture. Alongside, La Nuova Italia will present, in 1974, a more articulated proposal of instruments for specifically university use."

The covers are characterized by a typographic structure that is not always easy to implement: the surname of the author, enlarged so much to become a sign in the center of the page, cut on two lines in case of long words. From 1976/1977 onwards, the green previously reserved only for the surname was also used to cover the entire spine of the book. To underline the exclusively typographic choice, the symbol of the publishing house appears only on the first internal pages.

Except for a foray by Garamond for smaller texts, the covers are set in "Berling", a relatively unusual typeface for Italian publishing, designed in the 1950s by the Swede Karl-Erik Forsberg – title in regular italics, surname of the author in bold roman.