About the cover:

Full-grain binding Dark red cowhide, ungrained, lightly sanded, two 3mm thick blanks of the same cowhide on the front cover and one on the back cover, the corners of these blanks are accentuated with small light grey leather overlays in romboid form, green spine title, hand-stitched endpapers, natural cut, sloping leather spine of the same leather, flyleaf velour back of the same leather. Folding case covered with coarse cloth with red leather shield on spine, lined with red suede.

About the content:

Francis Jammes: Pomme d'Anis

With 38 multicoloured woodcuts by Grau Sala

Ex. No. 11 on Japon Ancien with an original and a suite including a breakdown of the printing block, bound in the back, of which 10 copies from a total of 312 copies.

Le Cheval de Bois, Paris 1946 Pommes d'Anis, or the story of a handicapped girl, actually called Laure, who is 17 years old, pretty and frail.

The author Jammes lived a secluded life in the Pyrenees and was considered a provincial.

About the artist: After studying at the École Estienne, François Brindeau worked for renowned designers such as Georges Leroux, Monique Mathieu and Jean de Gonet. He then trained as a graphic designer. Today, he is a teacher at the École Estienne and is himself a talented, inventive and curious cover artist who seeks out new design paths. As a self-confident personality with an ‘assertive’ character, he helps his students to find their identity. He sets high standards for them, as well as for himself.

He compares decorative binding to the function of luxury packaging used to present a product. ‘The technology must make creative designs possible!’