Hirundo Press. Caroline Saltzwedel. Woldsenweg 18, Hamburg 20249, Germany. Tel: +49 178 1701608. Website: https://hirundo.eu.
Caroline Saltzwedel. King Coal. 2023. Accordion fold. 18 pages. 330 x 186 mm. Futura, Baskerville on Richard de Bas, Siquieros (both handmade), with illustrations by Saltzwedel. Printed on proofing press, etching press. 10 copies bound by Caroline Saltzwedel in black cloth with a printed inlay on the front cover with label in a case with magnetic closure that opens flat. Price: £2000. King Coal is a book in concertina form showing a chronology of coalmining from antiquity to the present day. Significant dates in coal mining history appear in white on a thick black line, the coal seam, which continues on the back. Idioms in German and English deriving from coal mining culture are combined with songs from both countries. The work combines letterpress, etching and monoprint techniques.