About the binding:
Three-quarter binding Spine and large corners smoothed ruby red Morocco goatskin; five raised bands, gold lettering in the second (author) and the third (title) compartment; boards covered with red decorated paper; graphite head edge, sewn endbands; endpapers light-coloured Ingres paper. Simple slipcase of beige-coloured paperboard
About the content:
Charles-Louis Philippe: BUBU de Montparnasse
With 90 lithographs by Jules 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 has caught Syphilis and is 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 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.
