About the cover:

Full-grain binding Anthracite-coloured marocco binding with smooth spine and hand-gilt title, red and grey leather overlays on both covers, some groups of dots printed in silver, two white lines running across cover and spine in leather overlay, gilt standing edges, punched silver headpieces, hand-stitched endpapers, light beige laid paper, flyleaf black laid paper, half-leather hinged case and title stamped in gold.

About the content:

Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Visit of the Old Lady

With 20 original colour lithographs by Hans Falk, Ex. No. 118 of 149 on Vélin Rives, André and Pierre Gonin, Lausanne 1964. In this classic, Dürrenmatt makes it clear that you can achieve almost anything with money. The tragic comedy depicts how a group of citizens in Güllen allow themselves to be bribed with money by just one person, the very wealthy old lady, so that she can take revenge on her former lover, Alfred Ill, who has shamelessly abandoned her.

About the artist: Hugo Peller was born in Solothurn in 1917, the son of a master bookbinder, where he also began his bookbinding apprenticeship in 1934. Even then, he was interested in the craft. After his apprenticeship, he spent time working in Strasbourg. After active service in the Second World War, the renowned Swiss bookbinder Altermatt helped him to find work and school in Paris. At the Ecole Estienne, he was able to thoroughly expand his skills in binding techniques, gilding and decoration with respected teachers. Back in his own studio in Solothurn in 1946, he benefited from the extensive and enriching co-operation with the Olten Bücherfreunde. From 1946 to 1967, he also worked as a specialised teacher at the Solothurn trade school and gave various evening classes. From 1955 he was a member of the MDE (Meister der Einbandkunst) association, where he also served on the board and gave gilding courses.

Following the bankruptcy of Joseph Stemmle, Hugo Peller was appointed as the new director of the Centro del libro in Ascona in 1978.