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Amor and Psyche, a fairytale from antiquity

Ascona-Presse; Ascona, Switzerland; 1999

Author: Lucius Apuleius

Illustrator: Felix Hoffmann

Printer: Wolfan Druck

Binder: Roland Meuter

Contact: www.rmeuter.ch

Edition of 100, 80 pages with 25 original engravings. Special edition 1-30 on parchment, various bindings; regular edition 31-100 on Romabëtten-paper with vignette by Felix Hoffmann; contributors' copies I-XX. Text printed in Stempel-Schneidler type on Hahnemëhle Kupferdruckbëttenpapier. Typography by Erich Gëlland. Afterword by Henning Wendland.

Between 1986 and 2006 the Ascona Press published 17 books hand bound by Roland Meuter and letterpress printed primarily under the direction of Erich Guelland.


 

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