English Translation

The circle of members includes, in addition to personalities, who are guided by the subject to book research and book design, book friends of Germany and abroad, who, inspired by the inner experience of the book, want to get to know its diverse external conditions and fates and enjoy book-artistic design. Since 1941, the president of the society has been the Reichsleiter and Reichssthalter von Schirach. Society addresses every book lover who, in order to conclude with words of the poet and biblical philosopher Rudolf Alexander Schröder, "falls a shiver of reverence before the wun of the book, this receptaculum and repertory of our human and spiritual world. His collection may consist of twenty or twenty thousand books; he will be welcomed in the fraternal community as we feel, he will belong in the unforeseeable spirit realm, in which even the greatest collector, even the most great creative spirit, is at best only a small dynast, among the servants of the word and of the world in the word, as we book friends and book collectors should and may feel us in our special sense.« The annual contribution is 20.- RM, the entrance fee 10.-RM. Students, members of other bibliophile societies and during the war of Wehrmachtsangeigen will not receive any entry fees. To be admitted, an introduction by a member of the company is required. Application for entry must be addressed to the secretary of the society: A. F. Velmede, Berlin-Südende, Seestraße 9 Accounts of the Society: Deutsche Bank, Depos. -Kasse K 2, Berlin W 35, Lützowstr. 33. Postcheckamt Berlin Nr. 2411 80