About the binding:
Full leather binding Black sealskin leather; gold-tooled title and lines on smooth spine; gold-tooled dot semée on both cover boards and the spine; gold-tooled lines on board sides; gilt head edge and sewn silk endbands; doublure with gold-tooled frame, doublure and flyleaf light grey Roma paper. Leather-edged slipcase covered with Japanese wood veneer.
About the content:
Rudolf Alexander Schröder: Aus meiner Kindheit
Copy no XVIII of XXXII on Zerkall vat paper with watermark VOB, no 100 of 1–100 as full leather bindings in black sealskin, 582 copies in total. 57. Oltner
Liebhaberdruck, a print for book enthusiasts, by the Association Oltner Bücherfreunde, 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, the son of a master bookbinder, was born in 1917 in Solothurn, where he began his bookbinding apprenticeship in 1934. Even then, he was interested in artisan craftwork. After his apprenticeship, he worked abroad in Strasbourg. After active service in the Second World War, the renowned Swiss bookbinder Altermatt helped him to find work and training in Paris. At the École Estienne, he was able to significantly broaden his skills in binding techniques, gilding, and decoration with distinguished teachers. Back in his studio in Solothurn in 1946, he benefited from the intensive and enriching cooperation with the bibliophilic association Vereinigung Oltner Bücherfreunde. From 1946 to 1967, he also worked as a specialist teacher at the Solothurn Trade School and taught various evening classes. From 1955, he was a member of the association MDE – Meister der Einbandkunst, where he also served on the board; he also gave gilding courses.
Following the bankruptcy of Joseph Stemmle, Hugo Peller was appointed as the new head of the Centro del libro in Ascona in 1978.
