About the cover:

Full leather binding Black maroquin with hand-gilt spine title and dotted semé on the spine, front and back covers, gilt edges and hand-stitched silk endpapers, gilt edges and inner edges; endpapers in light grey laid paper, leather-bound slipcase covered with Japanese wood veneer.

About the content:

Rudolf Alexander Schröder:From my childhood

Ex. No. XVIII of XXXII on Zerkall laid paper with ‘VOB’ watermark, 100 of 1-100 copies as half leather volumes in black sealskin, 582 copies in total. Fifty-seventh Altner

Liebhaberdruck, Olten Book Friends Association, Olten 1953 Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878-1962) was a German writer, translator and poet of Protestant hymns, as well as an architect and painter.

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.