Jacqueline Antiquariaat Digitalis

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Snuffelen tussen oude boeken

Just sold.

#booksky
#jiritrnka

Wow, een rijdende lectuurwinkel in Amsterdam in de seventies.

We moeten terug!

#NewIllustrationDay by Britta Teckentrup from her picturebook The Birthday. Big Hedgehog and Little Hedgehog in a pink twilight that illuminates the branches of trees and the patterns and textures of foliage, as they approach their silhouetted house. Prestel 3 March. @brittateckentrup.bsky.social

Make this saturday amazing - visit a bookshop!

New additions to our Typography catalog. All first editions.

Excellent collection of great midcentury illustration. Highly recommend checking this archive out! Makes me want to do the same with my collection. Some day. Some day!

Graphic design by Wim Crouwel and colleagues of Total Design for Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Geboortedag boekverzorger en letterontwerper Helmut Salden (1910-1996), die bekend werd met zijn ontwerpen voor o.a. de Russische Bibliotheek, boeken van W.F. Hermans en vele andere klassiekers uit de Nederlandse literatuur. (Foto Salden: Arenda Oomen)

A mother sits with two children gathered around a collection of children’s books while some other children browse the shelves behind them

Everyday Ladybird things.

The town library (1960)
Artist: Harry Wingfield

Striking block-printed endpapers on a 1776 German translation of The Vicar of Wakefield.

SPEX, LIBF, LBF... If you are working in publishing (and potentially bookselling) at the moment, or you have ever done so, then you will know the acronym LBF very well.

It's nearly time for the London Book Fair, a staple of my work life since I started in publishing in 2011. As a move from Olympia is on the horizon next year, I thought I would write about all the places the fair has been held since it began in 1971!
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Motif - a journal of the visual arts : number 2 : Shenval Press : London : 1959 : front cover : designed by Robert Stewart. Motif magazine was published the by Shenval Press in 13 issues running from 1958 until 1967 and was editied by Ruari McLean. Shenval was run by James Shand (1905 - 1967), a complex figure, who ran the business whilst being happier amongst London's bohemian community - it allowed him to issue alongside Motif three other influential publications on design and typography; Typography (1936 - 39), Alphabet and Image (1946 - 48) and Image (1949 - 52). Issue 2 in February 1959 appeared with these bright and breezy silk screen bindings designed by Robert Stewart. This, the front cover, shows a crescent moon in connection with the sun on the back cover. The crescent moon, in very bold abstract form, has a blue face looking towards the sun (on the back cover) - spiky rays emanate from the leaft, back, side in shades of red, green and blue. The title appears bottom left.

Motif - a journal of the visual arts : number 2 : Shenval Press : London : 1959 : back cover : designed by Robert Stewart. Motif magazine was published the by Shenval Press in 13 issues running from 1958 until 1967 and was editied by Ruari McLean. Shenval was run by James Shand (1905 - 1967), a complex figure, who ran the business whilst being happier amongst London's bohemian community - it allowed him to issue alongside Motif three other influential publications on design and typography; Typography (1936 - 39), Alphabet and Image (1946 - 48) and Image (1949 - 52). Issue 2 in February 1959 appeared with these bright and breezy silk screen binidngs designed by Robert Stewart. This, the back cover, is dominated by a bright red sun, with face, along with many varied rays emanating outwards.

The covers to Motif 2, Feb. 1959, from silkscreens designed by Robert Stewart showing the sun and moon. Motif, a journal of the visual arts, ran from 1958-67, issued by the influential Shenval Press under the complex personality of James Shand. #graphicdesign #art #sun #moon

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Geboortedag Sjoukje Troelstra (1860-1939), beter bekend onder haar schrijversnaam Nienke van Hichtum. Ze was getrouwd met de socialistische politicus Pieter Jelles Troelstra en schreef haar bekendste boek 'Afke's tiental' toen manlief een tijdje in de cel zat wegens belediging.

Dutch Art Nouveau books on applied arts will be in auction shortly.

Front cover of the ladybird book featuring a news kiosk with a newspaper seller and several men in suits browsing broad sheets

Ladybird book in the spotlight.

The Story of Newspapers, 1969
Artist: Ron Embleton

A rather wonderful Irispapier ('rainbow paper') from c.1840, from the bindery belonging to Johann Michael Zötl, a bookseller in Freistadt, Upper Austria.

NEW VISUAL STORY | Japanese Sample Catalogues: Silk, Gold and Luxury in the 1870s (a digital exhibition showcasing all samples from these two Japanese catalogues). iexposure.ikfoundation.org/japanese-sam...

NEW ESSAY: Japanese Sample Catalogues: Silk, Gold and Luxury in the 1870s. www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/ja...

Fun handkerchief design featuring an accordion player with a little monkey.

Fun handkerchief design featuring umbrellas flowing up with various flower designs around them.

Fun handkerchief design featuring a water fountain with some girls playing around it.

Fun handkerchief design featuring butterfly designs and some flowers around them.

Did you know? Mary Blair designed handkerchiefs in the 1950s, for Carol Stanley Studios in New York.

#wardsmorguefile

Working on this exhibition was so much fun! Thanks again to everyone who made it possible

Sterfdag Fiep Westendorp (1916-2004). Generaties zijn opgegroeid met haar tekeningen van o.a. Jip en Janneke en Pluk van de Petteflet. Ze stelde zich ondanks haar talent bescheiden op. Ze wilde nooit het hoogtepunt van het verhaal illustreren, de pointe was voor de auteur.

Newly added to our typography collection. Catalog + poster celebrating 50 years of the Helvetica font.

‘Studies in Animal Life’ by George Henry Lewes. London: Smith, Elder, 1862.

I saw this wandering around UW-Madison’s Memorial Library.

#naturalhistory #insectart #publishersbinding #sciart #insectillustration

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#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Aditi Anand from The Fabric of Us. I love the images in this book, conjuring rich scenes with glowing colours and loose drawing that captures stance and gesture. A child with two fathers deals with loss. Walker 12 Feb. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social @aditianand.bsky.social