About the cover:
Half-fringed binding Dark green goatskin spine, author and title as well as a horizontal line at the head and foot of the spine embossed in gold, cover paper batik roller model print by Emil Kretz, covered parchment corners, gilt head edge, hand-stitched endpapers, endpapers made of Ingres; simple slipcase made of thin, green pressboard.
About the content:
Meinrad Inglin: Visit from the Beyond
Signed first edition
Ex. No. 60 of 580 numbered copies
87th publication of the Olten Friends of Books Association, Whitsun 1960. In this story, the devil tries to convince a man of our time that the world is an unsuccessful creation. But he does not succeed, although he has enough evidence at hand. The troubled man, despairing of the meaning of his world, allows himself to be tempted by the polite adversary, but in the end he confesses to the work of the Creator.
About the artist: Thorvald Henningsen was born in Lausanne in 1896 and completed his bookbinding apprenticeship with Konrad Häsler in Zurich from 1910 to 1914. He gained a wide range of professional experience at various workplaces in Switzerland. After qualifying as a master craftsman in 1921, he was the manager of the Schumacher bookbindery in Bern. In 1946, he took over a bookbinding workshop at Napfgasse 4 in Zurich's old town, directly above Café Schober. The years leading up to the sale of his workshop in 1972 were intense: in addition to managing his soon very renowned workshop, he taught at the arts and crafts schools in Zurich and Bern, gave evening classes for bookbinders and preparatory courses for the master craftsman's examination. He was on the board of the Cantonal Zurich Master Bookbinder Association and the Museum of Bookbinding, as well as being involved in promotional films and trade exhibitions. He became known beyond Switzerland as the author of specialist books and articles.
