About the cover:
Full-grain binding Black oasis goatskin, large embossed print in real gold on the front cover, with white and dark red raised bands embossed with coloured foil, gilt title, gilt head edge, hand-stitched endpapers, anthracite-coloured paper spine and endpapers, raw linen flap cover, lined with molleton, gilt title on black leather label.
About the content:
Bruno Ackermann: La demeure des heures de peine
With three coloured original etchings by Armand Desarzens
Ex. No. 2 of 40 on Vélin Arches pur chiffon from a total of 515
Édition Empreintes, Lausanne 1985 4 chapters in verse on 72 pages:
Demeures virginale
Habitation
Urgente parole
La demeure des heures de peine
About the artist: Martin Jaegle completed his bookbinding apprenticeship in Zurich from 1947-50, followed by his master craftsman's examination in 1960. After holding various positions, Thorvald Henningsen ‘brought’ him into his studio in the centre of Zurich's Niederdorf district in 1952, where he remained until 1962. He also took courses in gilding with Th. Henningsen and Morf, calligraphy with H. Meier and W. Wälchli, colour theory with Emil Mehr and drawing with Frühauf, Bärtschi and Fischer. In 1956/57 he deepened and perfected his knowledge and skills in hand gilding with Raymond Mondange at the École Estienne in Paris.
