Author: NYENHUIS (J.T. Bodel)
Title: Liste Alphabétique d'une Petite Collection de Portraits d'Imprimeurs, de Libraires, de Fondeurs de Caractères, et Correcteurs d'Épreuves.
Description: [Not Printed for Sale], Leyden. 1836-61. 6 Parts (of 7), 4to, 8; 24; 16; 29; 21; [vi],28pp., with the bookplate of H.P. Kraus, foxing to part i, orig. decorated patterned paper wrappers. "An interesting list of published portraits of printers and publishers, arranged in a tabular form, and giving the date of the birth and the death of the subject, and the painter and engraver of the portraits, with notes as to the 'pose', where the picture is preserved. &c. The author's valuable typographical library, including the collection of portraits described above, was sold, after his death in 1874, by auction, by Mr. Fred. Muller, and the collection of portraits, in one lot, fetched over £100." — Bigmore & Wyman, II, p.86. A seventh part of this very scarce privately printed catalogue was published in 1868, but is not present here.

Keywords: PRINTING PUBLISHERS PRINTERS LIBRARY CATALOGUE ANTIQUARIAN