About the cover:

Full-grain binding Cover in antique pink boxcalf, both covers with a loose semé of narrow strips of paste paper in intersecting line indentations, palladium-stamped long title on smooth spine, barbered edges, coiffe lyonnaise, Grey/pink paste-down paper with coloured pencil drawings on various coloured backgrounds, half-leather chemise, with paladium spine title, covered with pink/grey paste-down paper, lined with mauve suede, leather-bound slipcase with red paste-down paper cover.

About the content:

Manfred Hausmann: The golden veil

With 22 drawings by Elfriede Weidenhaus, 10th printing of the Ernst-Engel-Presse by Walter Stähle, Stuttgart 1977/78 Poems about Aphrodite. Hausmann: ‘Three female figures emerged, Atthis, Glauke and Pherenike, around whom the verses began to revolve. It was a pleasure for me to constantly extract new rhythmic and tonal nuances from the structure, despite the need for discipline. I believe that no measure of verse is better suited to depicting and praising the luminous and darkened magic of sensual love."

About the artist: Mechthild Lobisch belongs to a circle of people who have dealt extensively with contemporary binding techniques and design. As a trained bookbinder, she has spent a lifetime working with great passion and dedication on the craftsmanship and formal quality of books. As an appointed professor, her work at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle was widely respected, where she led the Conceptual Art Book class in the Art Department, specialising in painting/graphics, from 1995-2006. It is thanks to her that a group of her graduates have had a lasting influence on German bookbinding art ever since.