Half leather binding
Grey goatskin, covers of multicoloured coloured paper pigment-printed on F-Color, silver-stamped title on smooth spine; barbered edges, paper endpapers; endpapers pigment-printed on Ingres; slipcase with leather-reinforced round corners, pigment-printed cover.
Karl Severin: 25 figure poems of the Baroque period Publisher's copy of 350 numbered copies, hand typeset by Walter Stähle Published by Basse & Lechner, Munich 1983
The publisher has endeavoured to give the selected figure poems an appropriate artistic framework. The chosen book format, the type area, the content paper, as well as the typesetting and printing should reflect the true beauty of Baroque figurative poetry. Each baroque figure poem, together with the explanatory illustrated text, forms a double page.
About the artist: Mechthild Lobisch belongs to a circle of people who have dealt extensively with contemporary binding techniques and design. As a trained bookbinder, she has spent a lifetime working with great passion and dedication on the craftsmanship and formal quality of books. As an appointed professor, her work at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle was widely respected, where she led the Conceptual Art Book class in the Art Department, specialising in painting/graphics, from 1995-2006. It is thanks to her that a group of her graduates have had a lasting influence on German bookbinding art ever since.
