About the cover:
Half-fringed binding Smoothed wine-red marocco spine and large corners, five tall, narrow bindings, coloured paper cover, hand-gilt title, graphite headpieces, hand-stitched endpapers, light Ingres endpapers, light slipcase of beige half cardboard
About the content:
Charles-Louis Philippe: BUBU de Monparnasse
With 90 lithographs by Grandjouan, Édition Albin Michel, Paris 1905 Pierre Hardy, a young man from the provinces, arrives in Paris and falls in love with Berthe Méténier, a young prostitute who hopes to escape her fate. The problem is that her pimp, Maurice Belu, known as Bubu, is also her husband. Things become even more complicated when Pierre discovers that he is infected with Siphylis and is therefore sentenced together with Berthe and Bubu. Even though Bubu is in prison, Pierre doesn't have the courage to escape with Berthe...
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.
