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Een Boecxken.Susten Bertken,Zilverdistel,1918

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die.lvii.iaren besloten heeft gheseten tot Utrecht in dye buerkercke, 34pp., number xx of 70 copies on Dutch handmade paper (50 for De Vereeniging der Vyftig & xx for De Zilverdistel), printed in red and black in Disteltype, initials in red or blue by de Roos, presentation copy to Jan Toorop inscribed on front free endpaper, original limp vellum with printer's device in gilt on upper cover, spine titled in gilt, uncut, modern cloth slip-case, 8vo, 170 x 120mm., The Hague, De Zilverdistel, 1918.

***The first use of Lucien Pissarro's Disteltype and printer's mark. Important association copy. As a Symbolist painter and illustrator (see lot 7) Toorop's reputation reached beyond the Netherlands and he was an early inspiration for the aesthete van Royen..