Author: HELOÃ�SE (M. DOUWES DEKKER, NÉE HAMMINCK-SCHEPEL),
Title: Multatuli. Bloemlezing. Derde Druk. [3rd. edn.].
Description: Amsterdam, Elsevier (sic!), 1888. Small stout 8°. Orig. cloth. Richly gilt tooled, lettered front boards and spine with a coloured floral design, all edges gilt. Hfitle (verso blank). (x), [3], 512pp. Frontispiece (engraved portrait of Multatuli), facsim. of a letter on 2 unnumbered lvs., table of contents, [Elzevier Bibliotheek, series]. DE MARE, 23 (calls for nieuwe uitgave (derde druk)/new publication, 3rd. edition) and:Elzevier Bibliotheek II). A Multatuli anthology, compiled by his wife M. Douwes Dekker, née Hamminck-Schepel, her pseudonym differntly spelled as Heloïze on front boards, as Heloïse on ti.-p., bibliography DE MARE, spells Heloïze, and lists as series Elzevier Bibliotheek II, adding roman numerals II, omitted on original ti.-p. A good copy in very nice original publ. cloth. (head-band of spine with wear, both front and lower inner joint splitting, but holding firmly).

Keywords: multatuli literature anthology heloïse douwes dekker social stratification history colonialism indonesia southeast asia buur 19thc. de mare social history