1505 - 2090 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
- Bookplate P.M. Heringa on upper pastedown; tipped-in card "(Mevrouw Sickenga, Knappert [letterpress]. Welcome in your Holland-Home [manuscript]") on lower pastedown; first few lvs. foxed. Covers trifle dustsoiled.
= De Zilverdistel 15.
- Spine-ends and corners sl. rubbed. = De Zilverdistel 6.
- Usual offsetting from turn-ins on first and last free endpaper; sm. bookplate on verso of first free endpaper. Vellum paper wr. sl. browned and sm. dam. at spine-ends. Good/fine, unopened copy.
= De Zilverdistel 4.
= Published in 500 copies on occasion of the 175th commemoration of the death of Willem Bilderdijk. Contains booklets/ fold. leaflets by i.a. N. BEETS, Ter Nagedachtenis van Mr. Willem Bilderdijk (...). Postscript P. van Zonneveld (fold. leaflet); P. GERBRANDY, 'Een leven vol sukkelingen.' Het levenslange sterfbed van Willem Bilderdijk (15,(4)p., orig. wr.); 'Hoe maak je van je grafkist een camera obscura?' (fold. leaflet, metal pin and piece of paper); R. HONINGS, Een orang-oetan in Haarlem (8p., orig. wr.); 'Kruiden bij gonzingen. Samengesteld door Antonie van der Pigge' (fold. bag containing medicinal herbs against "gonzingen" (headaches), w. fold. "bijsluiter") and 'Mr. Willem Bilderdijk 1831-2006' (decorated porcelain saucer).
- Wr. trifle yellowed at edges.
= With AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION: "Voor Fons, omdat hij heden jarig is. R. Simon." Also with loosely inserted menu for the dinner that Carmiggelt organized on his 50th birthday (1963) in Restaurant Artis, Amsterdam. And with 3 birth anouncement cards (incl. 1 duplicate) for the grand children of Carmiggelt in the style of the wrapper of Twin set.










