About the cover:
Full-grain binding Dark blue goatskin binding with four bindings, 3 narrow parallel gold lines on each binding and along the edges of the covers, blind-stamped floral border in the bindings and along the gold lines on both covers, gilt head edge, hand-stitched endpapers, ribbon marker, narrow blind decorative line on standing edges, floral border as inner edge gilding, endpapers in coloured paper, slipcase with leather binding, cover in dark blue laid paper.
About the content:
Lawrence Sterne: Voyage sentimental
With 32 multicoloured guaches (water-soluble, glue-bound opaque colours) by Édouard Halouze.
Ex. No. 195 of 500,
‘A l'Enseigne du Masque d'or’, Paris 1920 Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was an Irish-English poet, a member of the clergy, and is considered a literary grand master. The ‘Sentimental Journey’ through France and Italy is one of his most famous works.
About the artist: Thorvald Henningsen was born in Lausanne in 1896 and completed his bookbinding apprenticeship with Konrad Häsler in Zurich from 1910 to 1914. He gained a wide range of professional experience at various workplaces in Switzerland. After qualifying as a master craftsman in 1921, he was the manager of the Schumacher bookbindery in Bern. In 1946, he took over a bookbinding workshop at Napfgasse 4 in Zurich's old town, directly above Café Schober. The years leading up to the sale of his workshop in 1972 were intense: in addition to managing his soon very renowned workshop, he taught at the arts and crafts schools in Zurich and Bern, gave evening classes for bookbinders and preparatory courses for the master craftsman's examination. He was on the board of the Cantonal Zurich Master Bookbinder Association and the Museum of Bookbinding, as well as being involved in promotional films and trade exhibitions. He became known beyond Switzerland as the author of specialist books and articles.
