Dear All,
Another step has been achieved: the book cover has been finalized.
The original idea was to use the Mauser bust as on the dust jacket. Unfortunately, the specialists told us that the foil stamping process is not adequate in term of resolution to print out the bust with the necessary accuracy.
For this reason, we decided to change the design and using something more "classic": a drawing of a C96 pistol in combination with the Paul Mauser signature.
However, we decided to do something special, not just a standard C96 drawing.
What you see reproduced on the cover is an drawing made on the 5th of May, 1905 by Paul Mauser himself to describe a new sear safety mechanism that, in the end, was not finalized. In the book, you will see, for the first time, all the original drawings that describe this sear safety mechanism.
Cheers,
Mauro
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