About the binding:

Full leather binding Dark blue Rajah goatskin; dark blue title on smooth spine; bold dark blue lines tooled on both cover boards as part of a six-part concept, developed from the original dust jacket designed by Mechthild Lobisch; rough-trimmed edges, sewn endbands; edge-to-edge doublure, doublure and flyleaf coloured and inscribed paste paper. Slipcase chemise in half-binding style, covered with paste paper in the same style as the book’s endpapers and lined with light grey suede; title embossed in silver on the spine. Leather-edged slipcase covered with the same paste paper as book and chemise.

Note: The other five copies are in private and public collections in Germany and in other countries.

About the content:

Hermann Lenz: Geschichten Copper engravings by Peter Stein.

Concept by Mechthild Lobisch, Gauting.

Copy no 39 of 200 of the special edition, signed by the author and the artist, on Hahnemühle mould-made paper 150 gsm.

One-off special edition for the 100th anniversary of the Typographischen Gesellschaft Munich 1990. The German writer Hermann Lenz lived from 1913 to 1998 and wrote more than 30 works.

About the artist: Mechthild Lobisch belonged to a circle of people who were deeply engaged in contemporary binding techniques and design. Being a trained bookbinder herself, she has spent a lifetime advocating with great passion and dedication for the craftsmanship and formal quality in bookbinding. Her work was esteemed by the majority, especially as she was professor at the Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle, where she was head of the class Konzeptkunst Buch (Book as Conceptual Art) within the Art Faculty from 1995 to 2006. A group of her graduates has had a lasting influence on the German art of bookbinding ever since. Mechthild Lobisch died in autumn 2025.