About the cover:
Full-grain binding Yellow Cape Saffiano leather, seven bands, title in hand-gilt in the top band, standing lozenges in the other five bands, both covers with hand-gilt scrollwork and two or three lozenges attached to each other, gilt edges on three sides, hand-stitched capital, cap, standing and inner edge gilding, blue ribbon marker, marble paper endpapers throughout. Slipcase edged with black leatherette and covered with marbled paper.
About the content:
Ludwig Tieck: Minnelieder from the Swabian Age
With illustrations after copper engravings by Philipp Otto Runge, Ex. No. 10 of 500
Hamburger Presse, Hamburg 1918 Minnesang is the name given to the highly ritualised form of sung love poetry from the middle of the 12th to the middle of the 13th century. It is about the veneration or loving remembrance of one of the mostly high-ranking women of the Western European nobility.
About the artist: Franz Weisse, one of the most important binding artists of the 20th century, was co-founder of the association Meister der Einbandkunst (MDE), which still exists today. From 1907 to 1942, he taught at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg. One of his students was Ignatz Wiemeler. Weisse never gained a formal certificate of the trade and saw himself as an artist. His imaginative blind tooling on white pigskin leather bindings established his reputation. He was also an industrious technical writer.
The majority of his bindings were destroyed in a night of bombing in Hamburg during the Second World War.
