About the cover:

Half vellum binding White calf vellum over thin cover covered with soft laid paper, printed in shades of grey with computer-drawn line composition, above small blind-stamped dots and several groups of 3 light yellow short lines, barbed edges, paper endpapers, endpapers printed similarly to the covers, light grey three-quarter cloth hinged case, front cover coloured paper covered with pigment print with fine, brownish lines on blue-grey F-Color, printed long title (from top to bottom) on light grey paper label, glued in a slight depression on the back of the box, in the box at the bottom is the suite printed on China paper in a paper cover, as well as one of the nine copper engraving plates by Peter Stein.

About the content:

Hermann Lenz: Poems,

Peter Stein: copper engravings

One-off special edition of 2,000 copies, Ex. No. IV of IX of the special edition with a suite on China paper and one of the nine copper plates crossed out after printing

Concept: Mechthild Lobisch, Gauting, Typographische Gesellschaft München 1990. Hermann Lenz (1913-1998) was a German writer and poet. Peter Stein (1922-2015) was a Swiss painter, graphic artist and draughtsman.

About the artist: Mechthild Lobisch belonged to a circle of people who were deeply engaged in contemporary binding techniques and design. Being a trained bookbinder herself, she has spent a lifetime advocating with great passion and dedication for the craftsmanship and formal quality in bookbinding. Her work was esteemed by the majority, especially as she was professor at the Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle, where she was head of the class Konzeptkunst Buch (Book as Conceptual Art) within the Art Faculty from 1995 to 2006. A group of her graduates has had a lasting influence on the German art of bookbinding ever since. Mechthild Lobisch died in autumn 2025.