About the cover:

Full-grain binding Binding in black marocco leather, gilding over both covers and the spine with partially overlapping lines, which are continued on the standing and inner edges; the letters of the title on the front cover and spine are formed from several parallel gold lines; gilt head edge, hand-stitched endpapers, endpapers in Japanese wood veneer. Leather-bound slipcase, covered with dark brown laid paper.

My father completed an internship with Otto Dorfner in Weimar in 1937.

About the content:

BUDDHA Life and work of the pioneer in India

Ex. No. 215 of 251 on Zanders Bütten

Brandus'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1922 Siddharta Buddha's own experience of suffering and ancient Brahmin wisdom led him to recognise the supreme deity. This selection from the Pali canon is the oldest collection of the Buddha's discourses to have survived in a coherent form.

About the artist: Dorfner was appointed to the Grossherzoglich Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschule in Weimar by Henry van de Velde in 1910. From 1919 to 1922, he worked as a foreman at the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar. He later became self-employed, but continued to work for the Bauhaus. Dorfner ran his own publishing house for graphic editions and bibliophile editions.

From the mid-1920s, the Dofner workshop produced almost all the bindings for Harry Graf Kessler's Cranach Press in Weimar. As a master teacher at his public school for arts and crafts bookbinding, with several hundred students over the years, he left his mark on German bookbinding for almost half a century and set new standards. His artistic skill, combined with master craftsmanship, made him one of the most distinctive German bookbinders. Dorfner is characterised by the design of leather bindings with ingenious font developments and geometric line compositions, which are referred to as line style or Dorfner style.