Frederik van Eeden - De kleine Johannes. Met een ets van Jan Veth

Frederik van Eeden - De kleine Johannes. Met een ets van Jan Veth - 's-Gravenhage - Mouton & Co. - 1887 - 1st edition - [8], [2], [192] pp - Cloth binding - 16,5 x 21 cm. - Design: Jan Veth.

Condition: Good - COMPLETE with the etching. With contemporary note ('22 Maart 1891') by a previous owner. Book binding with light wear, faint stains on front cover. Neat copy.

Literary fairy tale by Frederik van Eeden (1860-1932) about a boy who is taken away by the fairy Windekind. Illustrated with an etched plate by the artist Jan Veth (1864-1925). Hardback FIRST EDITION. Van Eeden wrote a sequel (in 1905) and a third volume (in 1906).

¶ Cf. Beijers 1; Aardse 42; Braches p. 151-154 and 497 (all show later editions). One of the first expressions of Symbolism and 'Nieuwe Kunst' in book design. The real first edition in Veth's Art Nouveau binding is quite rare. Later (onwards from 1898) it was Edzard Koning who designed the book covers for De Kleine Johannes.