Author: MEERTEN-SCHILPEROORT, Anna Barbara van.
Title: Penélopé of maandwerk aan het vrouwelijk geslacht toegewijd. Bevattende: de beschrijving en afbeelding van allerhande soorten van vrouweljike handwerken, benevens eenige lektuur, over onderwerpen uit den vrouwelijken kring.Including:- Volume 1 - Year 1821 - issues 1-10 and 12.- Volume 2 - Year 1822-1823 - issues 2-5, 7-9, and 12.- Volume 4 - Year 1826-1827 - issues 7-10.- Volume 6 - Year 1830-1831 - issue 6 (part 6.1, no. VI).- Volume 7 - Year 1832-1833 - issues 7-11 (part 7.2, no. I-V).- Volume 8 - Year 1834-1835 - issue 6 (part 8.1, no. VI).Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1821-1834. 30 issues. 8vo. With 57 (of 60) hand coloured engraved plates (28 folding, 29 full-page). Original publisher's white printed paper wrappers.
Description: Large collection of the first long-running women's magazine in Dutch in its original wrappers, with near complete runs of the first two years. This beautifully produced work contains instructions for various luxury craft projects to decorate one's home, which are illustrated with large, vividly hand coloured, plates. The intended audience consisted of girls and young women who had the time and money for such crafts, as the required supplies could be costly. A subscription to the magazine itself would also have been fairly expensive. The most notable subscriber was Anna Pavlovna (1795-1865), the later queen of the Netherlands, whose name is mentioned at the top of the subscription list in the first issue of 1821. Larger collections of the magazine, like the present, are quite rare. It is even rarer to find the issues in the original wrappers, as they were commonly bound together.The magazine was named after the wife of Odysseus, who was known for her weaving skills. It was published from 1821 to 1835, and appeared monthly in the first year, and bi-monthly in subsequent years. As each volume consisted of 12 issues, it took two years to publish the full volume after 1821. Each issue is divided into two distinct parts, their pages separately numbered. The first part is devoted to crafts and includes instructions for a remarkable variety of projects, including sacs and purses, table-clothes, lamp-shades, embroidered paintings, pin-cushions, baskets and boxes, gilding the edges of tea cups, painting on glass, wood, or velvet, and working with human hair. The second part contains society news, reviews of plays and books, and other cultural interests. While the first part had to be as clear and concise as possible, the language in the second part was allowed to be more flowery.Anna Barbara van Meerten-Schilperoort (1778-1853), was the owner of a private girl's school at Rotterdam, and was at her time a great authority on the education of the young girls from good families in the Netherlands. The present periodical, which reached 8 volumes, formed a sort of continuation of her work with the girls at her school. It was rather popular, but also at the time very expensive, and all parts now have become very rare.All issues have an ownership annotation of E. van Exter, who is otherwise unknown, but her husband F. van Exter (likely Frans van Exter, 1776-?), who lived in Wormerveer, appears on the subscription list in the first volume of 1821. As such, the present collection comes from one of the original subscribers.With a contemporary owner's inscription ("E:F:R:J: van Exter Geb: Luitjes.") in the middle of the front wrapper of each issue, and a manuscript volume number in the upper left corner. The wrappers are slightly frayed around the edges, with a vertical tear in the back wrapper of issue 1 of 1821, the spines have somewhat browned, some of the wrappers are slightly foxed. Lacking the folding plate in issue 4 of 1827 (manuscript number 46), and issues 7 and 10 of 1833 (manuscript numbers 79 and 80). Otherwise in good condition.l Vingerhoets, K., Het eerste succesvolle tijdschrift voor vrouwen. In: Bibliotheekblad 5, may 2024 (see: https://www.kb.nl/sites/default/files/documents/202405_bibliotheekblad_topstukken_penelope.pdf).
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Title: Penélopé of maandwerk aan het vrouwelijk geslacht toegewijd. Bevattende: de beschrijving en afbeelding van allerhande soorten van vrouweljike handwerken, benevens eenige lektuur, over onderwerpen uit den vrouwelijken kring.Including:- Volume 1 - Year 1821 - issues 1-10 and 12.- Volume 2 - Year 1822-1823 - issues 2-5, 7-9, and 12.- Volume 4 - Year 1826-1827 - issues 7-10.- Volume 6 - Year 1830-1831 - issue 6 (part 6.1, no. VI).- Volume 7 - Year 1832-1833 - issues 7-11 (part 7.2, no. I-V).- Volume 8 - Year 1834-1835 - issue 6 (part 8.1, no. VI).Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1821-1834. 30 issues. 8vo. With 57 (of 60) hand coloured engraved plates (28 folding, 29 full-page). Original publisher's white printed paper wrappers.
Description: Large collection of the first long-running women's magazine in Dutch in its original wrappers, with near complete runs of the first two years. This beautifully produced work contains instructions for various luxury craft projects to decorate one's home, which are illustrated with large, vividly hand coloured, plates. The intended audience consisted of girls and young women who had the time and money for such crafts, as the required supplies could be costly. A subscription to the magazine itself would also have been fairly expensive. The most notable subscriber was Anna Pavlovna (1795-1865), the later queen of the Netherlands, whose name is mentioned at the top of the subscription list in the first issue of 1821. Larger collections of the magazine, like the present, are quite rare. It is even rarer to find the issues in the original wrappers, as they were commonly bound together.The magazine was named after the wife of Odysseus, who was known for her weaving skills. It was published from 1821 to 1835, and appeared monthly in the first year, and bi-monthly in subsequent years. As each volume consisted of 12 issues, it took two years to publish the full volume after 1821. Each issue is divided into two distinct parts, their pages separately numbered. The first part is devoted to crafts and includes instructions for a remarkable variety of projects, including sacs and purses, table-clothes, lamp-shades, embroidered paintings, pin-cushions, baskets and boxes, gilding the edges of tea cups, painting on glass, wood, or velvet, and working with human hair. The second part contains society news, reviews of plays and books, and other cultural interests. While the first part had to be as clear and concise as possible, the language in the second part was allowed to be more flowery.Anna Barbara van Meerten-Schilperoort (1778-1853), was the owner of a private girl's school at Rotterdam, and was at her time a great authority on the education of the young girls from good families in the Netherlands. The present periodical, which reached 8 volumes, formed a sort of continuation of her work with the girls at her school. It was rather popular, but also at the time very expensive, and all parts now have become very rare.All issues have an ownership annotation of E. van Exter, who is otherwise unknown, but her husband F. van Exter (likely Frans van Exter, 1776-?), who lived in Wormerveer, appears on the subscription list in the first volume of 1821. As such, the present collection comes from one of the original subscribers.With a contemporary owner's inscription ("E:F:R:J: van Exter Geb: Luitjes.") in the middle of the front wrapper of each issue, and a manuscript volume number in the upper left corner. The wrappers are slightly frayed around the edges, with a vertical tear in the back wrapper of issue 1 of 1821, the spines have somewhat browned, some of the wrappers are slightly foxed. Lacking the folding plate in issue 4 of 1827 (manuscript number 46), and issues 7 and 10 of 1833 (manuscript numbers 79 and 80). Otherwise in good condition.l Vingerhoets, K., Het eerste succesvolle tijdschrift voor vrouwen. In: Bibliotheekblad 5, may 2024 (see: https://www.kb.nl/sites/default/files/documents/202405_bibliotheekblad_topstukken_penelope.pdf).
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Price: EUR 4000.00 = appr. US$ 4347.39 Seller: A. Asher & Co. B.V.
- Book number: ABC_48562
- Book number: ABC_48562