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 handcraft bookbinder in Münster and graduated in 1995. He then worked in Berlin where he received his master’s certificate in 2002. In addition to working in his studio, he attends various courses in further training in England, at the Centro del bel libro in Ascona, Switzerland, and with Edgard Claes. He regularly participates in exhibitions and competitions, including in England, at the Frankfurt and Leipzig book fairs, in Hamburg as well as in Tallinn, Bruges and Ascona. He is an active member of the MDE – Meister der Einbandkunst (International Association of the Masters of the Art of Bookbinding).