About the cover:

Half leather binding with attached covers Black leather spine with title embossed in gold, attached covers with light beige mottled imitation leather, relief on front and back covers by inserting thin cardboard blanks, graphite cut, leather endpapers, endpapers with continuous light beige Ingres, simple slipcase made of black half cardboard.

About the content:

Marcel Pagnol: Of the dear God who came from the vineyard

Illustrations after old woodcuts, Verlags AG Die Arche, Zurich 1971 The six sermons from Provence by Marcel Pagnol are taken from his films and theatre plays. Norbert Calmels published them in the order in which they appeared and wrote a short explanatory text alongside a detailed foreword to each sermon. Pagnol himself says that he wrote sermons because the spirit of the Provençal communities at that time was characterised by the pastors and teachers...

About the artist: Born into an old Zurich bookbinding family, Jean-Pierre Spetzler completed an apprenticeship with Thorvald Henningsen, one of the leading masters of the art of binding, who had a lasting influence on Spetzler's enjoyment of the profession.

From 1954, he was trained as a hand gilder by Prof Mondage at the École Estienne in Paris. He subsequently worked as a hand gilder in Geneva before acquiring a broad general knowledge by attending the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts. In 1957, his teacher Henningsen brought him into the studio at Napfgasse 4 as his closest colleague. After Josef Stemmle took over the workshop in 1972, he became its manager, initially still at Napfgasse, later at Hardturmstrasse.