About the cover:

Full-grain binding Attached covers, attached spine, folded edge staples. Covers and outer spine in black, inner spine and rebates in white goatskin. Plaques of white goatskin and natural pigskin on the covers. Embossed li-nien, partly gilt, partly lined with leather, gilt top edge, hand-stitched capital, ‘Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis’ (‘The times are changing, and we are changing with them’) is written in single letters as a motto on a white and the thirty-three black edge staples; velour leather mirror, flyleaf romabütten, raw cloth hinged case with gilt-stamped title on black leather label on the spine.

About the content:

Ovid: Les Métamorphoses

With 30 etchings by Pablo Picasso, facsimile edition limited to 145 copies on Vergé fin-blanc, Bellerive

No. 4075 A, Edito-Service SA, Geneva 1931 The Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, probably written between the 3rd and 8th century AD, are a mythological (legendary) poem about metamorphoses (transformations) written in hexameters (classical verse of epic poetry).

About the artist: Andreas Bormann trained as a manual binder in Münster until 1995. Andreas Bormann then worked in Berlin. In 2002, he passed his master craftsman's examination in Berlin. To this day, in addition to working in his studio, he attends various further training courses in England, at cbl Ascona and with Edgar Claes. He regularly participates in exhibitions, including in England, Bochum, at the Frankfurt, Leipzig and Hamburg book fairs, as well as in Tallinn, Bruges and Ascona. He is an active member of the MDE.