About the cover:

Full-grain binding Petrol green and smoothed marocco, on both covers a hand-gilt, large central motif of ornamental stamps in a blind and gold embossed line framework, which merges on the spine and is supplemented with two ornamental stamps, hand-gilt spine title, gilt head edge, multicoloured hand-stitched endpapers, velour endpapers, silk endpapers, half-leather chemise lined with velour leather, covered with light green Roma laid paper, slipcase with leather-lined opening and covered with light green Roma laid paper.

About the content:

Alphonse Daudet: Lettres de mon Moulin

With 25 original colour lithographs by Nanette Genoud

Ex. No. 72 of 220 on Rives paper, signed by artist and publisher

Édition André Gonin, Lausanne 1954 Daudet's ‘Lettres de mon Moulin’ are a collection of simple stories that describe the lives of some people in the south of France in an entertaining way.

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.