About the cover:
Full-grain binding Brown goatskin, 3 bands with square gilt and ornamentation, both covers and inner edges with gilt line frames, AP initial with branch and sword in the centre of the front cover, gilt head edge, hand-stitched silk endpapers, light grey Ingres endpapers throughout. Each volume in leather-bound slipcase, covered with dark blue Ingres.
About the content:
Alexander Pushkin:
1. the journey to Erzerum 1829-1835
2. letters 1816-1837
3 The Queen of Spades and Tales 1830
4 Captain's Daughter 1836
Bhl-Verlag, Herrliberg 1944 and 1945 Pushkin was born in Moscow in 1799. He is still regarded today as the Russian national poet, far ahead of Tolstoy etc. Until Napoleon's invasion of Moscow in 1812, the Russian upper class spoke French. Pushkin created a narrative style that mixed drama, romance and satire. This style has been inextricably linked with Russian literature ever since. In 1837, he was fatally injured in a duel with his brother-in-law, who coveted his wife Nathalia.
About the artist: Friedholf Morf completed an apprenticeship as a bookbinder from 1916-1919, then studied at the Zurich School of Applied Arts, from 1921 at the Munich School of Applied Arts under F. H. Ehmcke and in 1922 at the Berlin School of Applied Arts. After passing his master craftsman's examination in Munich, he taught at the State School of Applied Arts in Munich until the National Socialists came to power in 1933.
He then took over as head of the specialised class for bookbinding at the Zurich School of Applied Arts until his early death. He wrote highly acclaimed textbooks, including ‘Der Bucheinband’ in 1916 and ‘Papparbeit und Bucheinband’ in 1930.
