Hirundo Press. Caroline Saltzwedel, Woldsenweg 18, Hamburg 20249, Germany. Tel: +49 40494546. www.hirundo.eu
Caroline Saltzwedel. Querschnitt durch die Schwarze Kunst. 2020. 36 pp. 145 × 210 mm. Gill Sans and Futura on translucent Enduro Ice with six double-page panoramas and a plan composed of printer’s ornaments and rules by Salzwedel. Printed on a Heidelberg cylinder press. 120 copies: 110 sewn into printed red card covers and translucent printed paper wrappers, price €50; ten copies printed on double-size leaves (145 × 420 mm) attached together with book-screws, in a grey cloth-covered portfolio, with additional prints and a proof of one of the images. Price on application. The text (in German) is confined to the wrappers, title-page and colophon. The pages mostly bear elevations and a plan of the interior of the printroom in the Museum of Work in Hamburg (where Caroline does her letterpress printing), printed in multiple shades of grey. The book is intended to document an institution whose future is at risk.