The function of this book may have been less to print the Rilke poetry than to put the Roesch etchings into a proper bookish setting; yet the result is more than a picture book, for the poetry receives its own due in a careful handling of types. The volume is on the grand scale, simple and, and impressive. The hand-binding, paper on boards, is in the tradition of the temporary case.

Peter Beilenson, Paul McPharlin, Ernst Reichl (Jurors)