About the cover:
Full-grain binding Smooth, black cowhide, large recessed squares on the front and back covers with leather overlays in red, beige and green, bordered with black embossed lines, longitudinal title in gold; grey coloured edges, hand-stitched endpapers, wide inner edges with beige edging, red suede leather and flyleaf.
Folding case covered with yellowish fabric, lined with dark brown suede, spine label with gold title.
About the cover:
Andri Peer: Vainchot poesias
Camille Graeser: Tschinch illustraziuns Copy H.C. of the limited edition of 150 copies
Edition of 150 copies
Edition Adolf Hürlimann, Zurich 1977 28 Rhaeto-Romanic poems with accompanying German translation, two colour serigraphs and three drawings by Camille Graeser.
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.
