Necktie Song of Songs

A scarf for letterpress maniacs!Our elegant letterpress scarf is adorned with a shower of letters – hiding the name “Johannes Gutenberg.” On one end of the scarf, a “G” depicts the written history from the textura font of Gutenberg to the DIN standard font.This soft scarf is made from 100% pure combed, organic cotton and is a perfect match for our Gutenberg wool knit hat. The print colours are water-based and conform to the environmental standards (GOTS).Size: approx. 77 in. x 13 in.

Gutenberg-Bibel II/15v: The Song of Songs (1,1-2,14) – Cantica Canticorum This page from the Gutenberg Bible depicts the most beautiful and best-known Song of Solomon, the Canticle of Canticles. The moving, gentle and extremely erotic lines which describe the courtship of the young enamoured king are unparalleled and so often quoted: “I am the rose of Sharon, The lily of the valleys”. The initial “O” of “Osculetur me ...” shows the two lovers sitting opposite one another. Tendrils spill out from the “O” to fill the edge of the page with blossoms: with aquilegias as the symbol of the Holy Trinity, love and sexual power and with acanthus leaves, the sign of immortality. In the midst of this sumptuous embellishment sits a nightingale, the symbol of love and desire. Format: ca. 47 x 34 cm (the size may vary slightly with handmade paper) Reproducing ornamental pages from the 42-line Bible Our Bible pages are reproduced in the tradition of Gutenberg. Pure linen papier bearing a watermark is created by hand with the greatest of care. The black text is printed on historical Gutenberg Museum machines. The rubrication, headings, ornaments and miniatures are drawn in and painted by hand with the utmost perfection by our book artists. True to the mediaeval art of book embellishment, first an initial drawing is made and then the gold leaf is applied. Only then do our artists begin to illuminate the prints in colour. Applying the fine, raised gilt decoration is an ancient skill which very few artists still master. Here, a base material is applied to the paper layer by layer in an elaborate and time-consuming process to form a platform for the gold leaf. Information on storage and frames We supply our ornamental Bible prints in either a grey or burgundy presentation folder (format: 51 x 39 cm) together with a brochure on the Gutenberg Bible. If you would like your print framed, you can choose between a removable frame (format: 57.5 x 44 cm) and a handmade, airtight and dustproof frame with a gilt wooden trim. Both frames protect the costly gold leaf as the glass is raised from the passe-partout and thus from the surface of the print. Please note: allow an extra one to two weeks for delivery of a print in a permanent frame.

Accordion-fold book from the Fliegenkopf manual typesetting workshop Rudern zwei ein boot, der eine kundig der sterne, der andre kundig der stürme, wird der eine führn durch die sterne, wird der andre führn durch die stürme, und am ende ganz am ende wird das meer in der erinnerung blau sein Reiner Kunze: Rudern zwei. Miniature accordion-fold book, hand set, letterpress print; format: 2 x 2 cm; wrapped in a film band and packed in a transparent box. Handsatzwerkstatt Fliegenkopf. (Miniature accordion-fold book, volume 20). One of 400 copies. German edition.Comes with a tiny rowboat.

Klaus Klage, famous for his calendars with a quote for each day, collected in years of research quotations of more or less well-known people and arranged them in accordance to certain subjects. All of them have something in common: they are anything but lovely and boring but always with a certain humour, sometimes also a little sarcasm. In this miniature book there are almost 500 of those on the subject of love which are read again and again or quoted with pleasure in all possible and impossible situations. tes of Love. Hard cover in a slipcase, 512 pages, 38 x 53 mm, Miniaturbuchverlag Leipzig 2006. German edition.

Limited editions of two further Smallest Books are available while stocks last. "I Love You" is bound in red leather with a gold heart embossed on the front cover and contains the words "I love you" in twelve languages: English, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Slovenian and Sanskrit. The cent is only for view and not part of the offered product.

Walther von der Vogelweide, the most outstanding lyricist of the German Middle Ages, is a poet of rare stature, who will remain of outstanding importance for all time. Since, the life of the richly talented singer falls into a time when Germany shone brightly in power and splendour, but was also not infrequently hit by political and church-political storms, his songs are all the more significant for the German people, since from the changing wayside, besides atmospheric pictures of the soul, thrilling contemporary paintings emerge. Walther von der Vogelweide: Liebesgedichte. Hardcover in a slipcase, 288 pages, 38 x 53 mm, Miniaturbuchverlag Leipzig 2011. German edition.