- Lacking the orig. board dropback box.
= One of 50 Roman numb. copies. Playful "typespecimen" of the typographical material present in the Graifsch Centrum Groningen, printed by 25 Dutch private presses connected with it. Contains contributions by i.a. Albert Bouma, Elze ter Harkel, Peter Lazarov, Dick Ronner, Antje Veldstra and Pim Witteveen.
Johnson, R.F. and Stein, D. Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000. The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books. London/ San Francisco, Thames & Hudson/ Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2001, 302,(2)p., lavishly illustrated, orig. limp boards, 4to (fine). - AND 2 others, i.a. B. JANSSEN, Dick Bruna. Boekomslagen (Utr., 2000, col. ills., orig. pict. boards, 4to).
- First and final lvs. sl. foxed in outer margins.
Witteveen, A.Th. De dans van het penseel. Een korte inleiding tot de Chinese calligrafie. Zoeterwoude, De Nederlandsche vereeniging voor druk- en boekkunst, 2004, (20)p., tipped-in calligraphed frontisp., 7 full-p. ills., printed in 190 copies on Kozo, orig. boards, bound as a blockbook, 4to.
- All fine.
- A few lvs. browned; otherwise fine.
= Provenance: the library of C. Ekama, with his annots. in pencil throughout; the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his annots. tipped onto upper pastedown and annots. in pencil throughout.
- Fine set, the first 10 vols. together in orig board slipcase.
WITH: Register op de Jaarboeken I-X van het Nederlands genootschap van bibliofielen. Ed. G. Jaspers (Amst., 2004, orig. cl.) and 2 others concerning the Nederlands genootschap van bibliofielen.
= De Gulden Passer, year 66-67. WIth loosely inserted engr. portr. of C. Plantin.
Hermans, J.M.M. Zwolse boeken voor een markt zonder grenzen 1477-1523. Met een catalogus van de verschenen edities en gegevens over de bewaard gebleven exemplaren. 't Goy-Houten, HES & De Graaf, 2004, 312p., ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. - AND 4 others, i.a. G.D. BOM H.Gzn., "Vlaemsche Druckers" Uit het tweede en derde tijdvak der Renaissance (1526 tot 1599). Hunne Werken En Merken (Amst., 1894, ills., modern limp cl. w. orig. frontwr. laid down).
= Contains i.a. a list of political cartoons (1514 entries).
= Catalogue complet de l'oeuvre de Jean-Émile Laboureur Tome II. The standard bibliography.
Kästner, H. and Lübbert, H. Karl-Georg Hirsch. Das buchgraphische Werk. Eine Bibliographie. Rudolstadt, Burgart-Presse, 1996, 124p., ills., printed in 560 copies, orig. dec. boards, sm. folio. - AND 4 other (small) publications on illustrators.
= The standard bibliography on the subject.
- All fine.
= I.a. E.M. COHEN, S. LIBERMAN MINTZ and E.G.L. SCHRIJVER (ed.), A Journey through Jewish Worlds. Highlights from the Braginsky Collection of Hebrew manuscripts and printed books (Amst., 2009); C. COPPENS, M. DEREZ and J. ROEGIERS (ed.), Universiteitsbibliotheek Leuven 1425-2000 (Leuven, 2005); E. ELLIS, C. SEEBOHM and C.S. SYKES, At Home with Books. How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries (London, 1995); S.J. FOSTER, M. HEITING and R. STUHLMAN, Imagining Paradise. The Richard and Rona Menschel Library at George Eastman House, Rochester (Rochester/ Göttingen, 2007); W. GRUNWALD, M. KNOCHE and H. SEEMANN (ed.), Die Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek. Nach dem Brand in neuem Glanz (Berlin, 2007); G. DE LAUBIER and J. BOSSER, Die schönsten Bibliotheken der Welt (Munich, 2003); S. VON MEISS, Bücherwelten. Von Menschen und Bibliotheken (Hildesheim, 1999, 2nd ed.); H. PEETERS, Romantiek en mythevorming rond een bibliotheek. 450 jaar Stads- en Athenaeumbibliotheek 1560-2010 (Deventer, 2010).
- Occas. sl. foxed. Sl. rubbed along extremities, but otherwise fine.
= The plates show monochrome reproductions of decorative capitals in celtic style, taken from the Grand Bible de Charles-le-Chauve, also known as the Vivian Bible or The First Bible of Charles the Bald, commisioned in 845 by Count Vivian of Tours and presented to Charles the Bald.