To the cover:
Full-grain binding Brown goatskin with smooth spine and hand-gilt title, hand-gilt and blind-printed line ornamentation on both covers and across the spine, a palladium-stamped lozenge of ornamental stamps in the centre, gilt head edge, hand-stitched endpapers, marbled paper endpapers, leather-bound slipcase opening, marbled paper cover.
About the content:
Alphons Daudet: Lettres de mon Moulin
With pochoirs by Marianne Clouzot, one of 3,000 copies
Editions Terres Latines, Paris 1949 Daudet's ‘Lettres de mon Moulin’ is a collection of simple stories that describe the lives of some people in the south of France in an entertaining way.
With a personal dedication from Thorvald Henningsen to my mother Vreni Burkhardt-Aschmann
About the artist: Thorvald Henningsen was born in Lausanne in 1896 and completed his bookbinding apprenticeship with Konrad Häsler in Zurich from 1910 to 1914. He gained a wide range of professional experience at various workplaces in Switzerland. After qualifying as a master craftsman in 1921, he was the manager of the Schumacher bookbindery in Bern. In 1946, he took over a bookbinding workshop at Napfgasse 4 in Zurich's old town, directly above Café Schober. The years leading up to the sale of his workshop in 1972 were intense: in addition to managing his soon very renowned workshop, he taught at the arts and crafts schools in Zurich and Bern, gave evening classes for bookbinders and preparatory courses for the master craftsman's examination. He was on the board of the Cantonal Zurich Master Bookbinder Association and the Museum of Bookbinding, as well as being involved in promotional films and trade exhibitions. He became known beyond Switzerland as the author of specialist books and articles.
