This book was published under the imprint of Unica T, 'a fictitious person making real books'; in fact a group of Austrian women artists who worked closely together between 1986 and 2001.

Artists Ulrike Stoltz and Ute Schneider produced the work on a hand printing press, during their residency at an art fair in England, selecting for their text four sonnets by William Shakespeare. However they did not treat this greatest of English cultural icons with undue reverence: not only is his name rearranged, but the poems are interspersed with, and interrupted by, overprinting and collage, sometimes to the point of semi-illegibility. Brightly-coloured geometric shapes, and further texts, in German, are taken from modern books on various aspects of mortality – a strong theme in Shakespeare's sonnet sequence.

The slim volume is bound in delicate paper boards covered with tissue. Traditionalist craft values combine with a modernist poetic sensibility of fracture, fragmentation and allusion. The bold and busy visual style is characteristic of late 20th-century graphic design.