[Nieuwe Kunst. Haagse School] [Book Binding] P.A.M. Boele van Hensbroek. De Haagsche School in het Museum Mesdag
Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema/Groesbeek & Paul Nijhoff, n.d. (ca. 1904). 1st and only ed. Frontispiece portrait of Mesdag and 33 reproductions of paintings, incl. 1 tinted and 3 coloured. Gilt decorated cloth, upper edge gilt and vignettes in text by unknown designer (possibly Theo Nieuwenhuis?). Large folio (48 x 38 cm).
Deluxe overview of masterpieces in the Mesdag Collection. It is quite exceptional for the era that tinted and coloured reproductions are found. Not in Braches' Documentatie 2006. Rare.