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Hooglied van Salomo,ill.vdLeck/Klaarhamer,1905

36pp., number 4 of an unspecified number and signed by the artists, printed on heavy laid paper by Versluys & Scherjon of Utrecht, text printed in olive green, title-vignette, illustrations and decorations by B.A. van der Leck and P.J.C.Klaarhamer printed in sepia, 4 full- and 16 half-page, original grey cloth with wood-engraved lettering and decorations by Klaarhamer in black (most copies were left unbound), t.e.g., others uncut, spine slightly browned, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, folio, 380 x 280mm., Amsterdam, W.Versluys, 1905.

***There is an almost gothic severity in this rendering of a sensual tale; text and illustrations are integrated architecturally as though they were part of a building frieze. A fine example of the first, "decorative" period of book renewal, typography has been avoided here in favour of hand-engraved text, and the nineteenth century is still triumphant. A decade after this publication Bart van der Leck would embark upon his road to fame as co-founder, with Piet Mondriaan, of the De Stijl movement..