DUTCH BOOK PLATES
A Selection of Modern Woodcuts & Wood Engravings
D. Giltay Veth
New York: Golden Griffin Books / Arts, Inc., 1950. First American Edition of 500 (#91) numbered copies. 12mo. Yellow cloth decorated and titled in black and gilt. Frontis printed in red. 54 pp. followed by 83 original woodcut prints and engravings printed from the original blocks separately rectos only, on pages of 14.7 x 11.5 cm. All prints present and in uniformly fine condition. Yellow cloth lightly soiled with wear to lower edges and spine heel cloth splitting from the lower edge. A very good or better copy.
4.5 x 5.85-inch hardcover book with a color frontis, 54 pages of text translated by Phoebe Rogoff, and followed by 83 original woodcut prints and engravings printed separately, rectos only, from the original blocks. Composed and printed by Koch and Knuttel, Gouda on Antique Laid Paper.
The M. C. Escher “ex-libris A.M.E. Van Dishoeck” plate [no. 75] is present and in fine condition [Locher/Bool #329]. The Escher plate is usually excised from these volumes for aftermarket resale.
Includes original bookplate design by Pam Rueter, Fokko Mees, W. J. Rozendaal, Dirk Van Gelder, Georg Rueter, Pam G. Rueter, G. P. L. Hilhorst, J. Franken, Otto Verhagen, Debora Duyvis, Mia Van Regteren Altena, Thijs Mauve, Cor De Wolf, Dirk Van Luyn, Jan P. C. Van Doorn, Paul Grégoire, M. C. Escher, D. A. Bueno De Mesquita, Alice Horodisch-Garman, M. C Andrea-Naezer, Livinus Van De Bundt, Jonkheer, A. E. De Savorin Lohman, J. F. Doeve, and Jan B. Sleeper.