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First impression of the true first edition. ***By the author of "Norwegian Pictures". ***With a map and one hundred and thirty-three quality steel-engravings and illustrations drawn with pen and pencil including tissue-guarded frontispiece showing: "The Vyver at the Hague." All engravings and Map of Holland to page 14 present, as called for. ***Very good in tan cloth-covered pictorial boards with gilt and black titles spine and front board and colour pictorial illustration showing: "The Weight House, Alkmaar" to the front board. Decorative triple blind borders and a single blind border to rear board. Sepia floral front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. All edges of text-block gilt. Boards slightly rubbed and slightly marked. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Tiny hole to spine cloth. Corners of boards rubbed. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Contemporaneous red and black and signed in fountain pen decorative School Prize bookplate to front free endpaper awarded 22 April, 1901 first class prize presented to Thomas Hogarth of the Clifford School by Kingston Upon Hull School Board. Light sporadic foxing to prelims. Interior pages and plates clean. Spine tight. 284mm x 204mm. ***223 pages plus one-page index to rear. ***Contents: Chapter I. Holland and the Hollanders: Map of Holland; Winter at Zaandam; The Burgomaster's Pew; Dutch Courtship, Isle of Marken; Hindeloopen Costumes; a Dutch Maidservant; Chapter II. Amsterdam: Montalbans Tower; St. Anthony's Gate; Tower of the old Church; Bookstall; SErvant and Aanspreker, or Undertaker's Assistant; Alva's Last Ride; The Palace; Orphans of the Protestant Burgher House Kalverstraat; The Weeper's Tower; The Mint; St. Anthony's Gate; The Church of Moses and Aaron; Jew's Quarter; Diamond cleaving and cutting and Polishing; The Pulpit, New Church; The Old church; de Ruyter's Tomb; The Rijks Museum; Rembrandt's statue; Vondel straat; Zoological Garedens; a street, Old Amsterdam; Chapter III: To Marken via Deam and Volendam: Volendam Children in their working dress; Marken; Edam; Volendamers; Crossing to Marken (door, girl, corner, interior; Urk Islanders; Chapter IV.: To Alkmaar, Hoorn, and Enkhuizen, via Zaandam: on teh Zaan; The Weigh House, Hoorn; Alcmaira Victrix; the Locks at Zaandam; The Weigh House, Alkmaar; Cheese market at Hoorn; Scene at North Holland; Hoorn (State college, the water gate); Entrance to Zuyder Zee; North Holland dykes; Nieuwe Diep; Chapter V. Haarlem, The Home of Franz Hals: Haarlem (Market-place; Old Gate; Front of flesher's Hall; the Organ in the great church, the town hall, a dormer window); Chapter VI: The capital of Holland: Dutch fishing-boats off Scheveningen; the house in the wood; a by-canal at the Hague, William the Silent, the Town Hall, the beach at Scheveningen; Chapter VII: The great university Town of Holland; Chapter VIII: Delft; Chapter IX: Rotterdam, Dort, and Gouoda; Chapter X: Zeeland; chapter XI: Utrecht and the Southern Provinces; Chapter XII: To the East of the Zuyder Zee; Chapter XIII: a Glance at some Dutch Painters: Ruyssdael; Rembrandt; Frans Hals; Gerard Douw; Govert Flinck; Gabriel Metzu; Pieter de Hooch. ***Profusely illustrated with many full-page steel-engravings as well as smaller illustrations throughout. ***'The present volume attempts a more difficult task. It seeks to carry the reader to one of the quiet corners of Europe, and to prove that - apart from the human interest which every land inhabited by man possesses in greater or lesser degree - Holland has claims upon the attention and interest of such weight, that she is entitled to be studied as Germany and Egypt, Australia and Norway.' (from preface). Of interest to collectors of steel-engravings and antiquarian first editions. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 3430
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Bibliographic Details
Title: PICTURES FROM HOLLAND Drawn With Pen and ...
Publisher: The Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row and 164 Piccadilly, London
Publication Date: 1887
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Richard Lovett
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued
Edition: First Edition
