L. Harpman & P.A. Becx [ed.] - PLEM 1909-1959: Gedenkboek uitgegeven ter gelegenheid van het 50-jarig bestaan van de N.V. Provinciale Limburgsche Electriciteits-Maatschappij te Maastricht

L. Harpman & P.A. Becx [red.] - PLEM 1909-1959: Gedenkboek uitgegeven ter gelegenheid van het 50-jarig bestaan van de N.V. Provinciale Limburgsche Electriciteits-Maatschappij te Maastricht - Maastricht - PLEM - 1959 - 1st edition - [148] pp - Cloth binding with dust jacket - 24 x 26 cm. - Design: Dick Elffers & Ben Duijvelshoff.

Condition: Good - COMPLETE with dust jacket (with wear and damage on front cover; now protected in acid-free Brodart cover).

Corporate photobook designed in typo-photo style. With text by Bertus Aafjes. Illustrated with graphs and photos (in colour and black and white) by i.a. Cas Oorthuys, Koen Lenarts and Frans Lahaye. Text set from the type Goudy-catalogue and the Gill sans serif, printed by Boosten & Stols in Maastricht. Hardback first edition. Cf. Maan/vdRee 131; Thijsen #80 (and p. 152-153); Parr / Badger II p. 191 (and there also prominently on the cover):

"One of the best designed examples of the period; [...] the book might even be considered a prototype of the postmodern photobook [...] the letters PLEM are arranged in exactly the same way as the letters CPDE on the cover of Man Ray's Électricité (1931) [and] Another important design feature is a grid pattern that relates to the De Stijl movement of the 1930s which numbered amongst its exponents Piet Mondrian and Gerrit Rietveld."