Gabriel Naudé - Wenken voor het opzetten van een bibliotheek
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Gabriel Naudé - Wenken voor het opzetten van een bibliotheek - Utrecht - Stichting De Roos - 2011 - 1st edition - [132] pp - Hardcover in slip-case - 11,5 x 19 cm. - Design: Piet Gerards & Judith van der Heijden (PGO).
Condition: Excellent - COMPLETE with the accompanying letter from the publisher (in which Gerrit Komrij and Arnon Grunberg are mentioned).
Dutch translation (by Zsuzsó Pennings) of 'Avis pour dresser une bibliotheque' (1627); a 17th century manual for compiling a serious library. Illustrated with a colour scan of the title page of the original. With foreword by antique dealer Steven de Joode and index of persons.
¶ Edition: 175 numbered copies. Set in DTL VandenKeere and printed on Oikos Extra White paper. Bibliophile edition, bound by Boekbinderij van Waarden in Zaandam (closed in 2021). The Parisian Gabriel Naudé (1600-1653) is considered the founder of modern library science and built the oldest public library in France: the Bibliothèque Mazarine.
