Auld Lang Syne

Vienna: Offizin am Wolfersberg, 2021.

Oblong Miniature Book. 2 1/4 x 3 inches. Unpaginated. [34] pp. Frontispiece water-color illustration, text in English and German with title page printed in red and black inks, 3 water-color illustrations; text clean, unmarked. Limp vellum binding made without glue, made from a hand-written eighteenth-century vellum document with tongue and slot closures with slots on both sides of the covers, stitched spine with a small bead pull, all edges painted and gilt, housed in a paste-paper-covered slip case with the opening of the slip case covered with a small strip of vellum manuscript; binding square and tight. Small bifold laid-in the slip case is like a colophon with production details. GA323-001. Fine.

LIMITED EDITION of 10 copies, this is number 5, the text is taken from Beethoven's 12 Scottish Songs, WoO 156, Illustrations by Philipp Stastny. Contains both the English version of Burns' famous poem, alongside a German translation by George Pert. Printed in 6- and 8-point Linotype on Echt-Butten Ingress paper by Karl Wohnude, a private printer from lower Austria. 4 original water-colors painted by Philip Stastny, formerly of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna. The binding was made from al old notary document from the eighteenth century, as are the end sheets and the opening of the slip case. Herbert Hüpfel's Offizier am Wolfersberg has published two miniature books. The first, Wo? Fünf Blumen-Haiku. Where? Five Flower-Haiku, was the winner of the Miniature Book Society 2020 Miniature Book Competition. In both cases, Herbert Hupfel has brought together various artists, printers, and he does the bindings for his small editions (10 copies) of highly evocative and charming miniature books. Of Auld Lang Syne. Die Alte Gute Zeit, I can make available copies numbered 2, 3 (the slip case of copy 3 is covered in vellum manuscript as opposed to the paste-paper), 5, 6, 7, 9, and one out of sequence.