About the cover:

Full-grain binding Cover in old pink boxcalf, on both covers a regular semé of narrow strips of paste paper in intersecting line indentations, hand-gilt longitudinal title on smooth spine, barbered edges, coiffe lyonnaise, Mirror and flying leaves with coloured pencil drawing on grey/pink paste paper on a different coloured background, half leather chemise with gold spine title, covered with pink/grey paste paper and lined with mauve velour leather, leather-bound slipcase covered with reddish paste paper.

Hand gilding: Alain Coutret, Paris

About the content:

Manfred Hausmann: Old-fashioned love poems

With 19 drawings by Elfriede Weidenhaus

Ex. No. 4 of 285 signed by author, artist and publisher

15th printing of the Ernst-Engel-Presse by Walter Stähle, Stuttgart 1978 Beautiful poems by two lovers...

About the artist: Mechthild Lobisch belonged to a circle of people who were deeply engaged in contemporary binding techniques and design. Being a trained bookbinder herself, she has spent a lifetime advocating with great passion and dedication for the craftsmanship and formal quality in bookbinding. Her work was esteemed by the majority, especially as she was professor at the Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle, where she was head of the class Konzeptkunst Buch (Book as Conceptual Art) within the Art Faculty from 1995 to 2006. A group of her graduates has had a lasting influence on the German art of bookbinding ever since. Mechthild Lobisch died in autumn 2025.