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The Museum of the Book in the Hague1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Tanja de Boer
Tanja de Boer*
Affiliation:
Museum van het Boek, Prinsessegracht 30, 2514 AP The Hague, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Established in 1960, the Museum van het Boek is known for its holdings and exhibitions of Western book art from the last 110 years. Building on the starter collections of two donors, a private printer and a bibliophile, the Museum’s acquisitions now focus mainly on modern book art. More than 25,000 of the 450,000 objects in the Museum are books showing the development of standard Dutch publishing, the work of individual book illustrators, type designers and calligraphers, contemporary Dutch private presses and artists’ books. There is also considerable foreign material, notably from Germany and Great Britain.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , 2000 , pp. 19 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2000

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Footnotes

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This article updates a talk given during the London Artists’ Book Fair at the Barbican Art Gallery in November 1996.

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1. This article updates a talk given during the London Artists’ Book Fair at the Barbican Art Gallery in November 1996.Google Scholar

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