About the binding:
Full leather binding Brown Morocco goatskin; gold-tooled title on smooth spine; blind- and gold-tooled lines on both cover boards and across the spine, a palladium-tooled diamond shape formed by smaller ornaments in the boards’ centre; gilt head edge, sewn endbands; enpapers marbled paper. Leather-edged slipcase, covered with marbled paper similar to endpapers.
About the content:
Alphonse Daudet: Lettres de mon moulin
With pochoirs by Marianne Clouzot. Copy no 1,950 of 3,000.
Éditions Terres Latines, Paris, 1949. Daudet’s Letters from My Windmill is a collection of simple stories that describe the lives of several people in the south of France in an entertaining way.
Note: 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 served his bookbinding apprenticeship with Konrad Hänsler in Zurich from 1910 to 1914. He gained a wide range of professional experience at various workplaces in Switzerland. After receiving his master’s certificate in 1921, he managed 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 following years, he was very active until selling his workshop in 1972: in addition to managing his soon highly renowned workshop, he taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich and in Bern and gave evening classes for bookbinders as well as preparatory courses for the master’s certificate examination. He was on the board of the Association Kantonal-Zürcher Buchbindermeister-Verein 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.
