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Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis
Daal en Bergselaan 78
2565 AG Den Haag
Netherlands

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Tien originele prenten voor de tweede druk van Lijmen (1932).
Willem ELSSCHOT - Henri VAN STRATEN Complete set of ten original linocuts for the second edition of Lijmen (1932). Paper size 32 x 23 cm, image size 20 x 12 cm, the lino for the front cover 22 x 17 cm. Printed on Imperial Japanese paper. Nine of the prints were signed in blue pencil by Van Straten at the bottom right, the linocut for the cover remained unsigned, but it has some pencil lines, suggesting it may have been used for reproduction in the book. Attractive prints, extremely rare, a complete set printed on Imperial Japanese paper. We have not been able to find a complete set in public ownership. Raskin in his catalogue raisonné (2002): 'Rare signed proofs in original dimensions are known, three of which are in the AMVC, Antwerp. Nine preparatory drawings in Prentenkabinet, Antwerp' (p. 190). In Elsschot's letters they are always called woodcuts, but the prints are linocuts, as Raskin also says in his 2002 catalogue.
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