About the cover:
Full-grain binding Yellow Cape Saffiano leather, seven bands, title in hand-gilt in the top band, standing lozenges in the other five bands, both covers with hand-gilt scrollwork and two or three lozenges attached to each other, gilt edges on three sides, hand-stitched capital, cap, standing and inner edge gilding, blue ribbon marker, marble paper endpapers throughout. Slipcase edged with black leatherette and covered with marbled paper.
About the content:
Ludwig Tieck: Minnelieder from the Swabian Age
With illustrations after copper engravings by Philipp Otto Runge, Ex. No. 10 of 500
Hamburger Presse, Hamburg 1918 Minnesang is the name given to the highly ritualised form of sung love poetry from the middle of the 12th to the middle of the 13th century. It is about the veneration or loving remembrance of one of the mostly high-ranking women of the Western European nobility.
About the artist: Franz Weisse, one of the most important art bookbinders of the 20th century, was co-founder of the association Meister der Einbandkunst (MDE), which still exists today, and from 1907-1942 professor at the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg, where he taught Ignatz Wiemeler, among others. Weisse was neither a journeyman nor a master craftsman and saw himself as an artist. His imaginative blind prints on white pigskin bindings established his special reputation. He was also active as a diligent technical writer. The majority of his covers were burnt in a night of bombing in Hamburg during the Second World War.
