[Private press] Zilverdistel - Willem Kloos

Verzen uit de jaren 1880-1890. The Hague, De Zilverdistel, MCMXXIX. (10), 107, (15) pp. No. 84 of 100 copies (besides 20 privately owned copies). Gilt vellum Zilverdist vignette on front board. Copy from library of A.P.A. van Royen. With an extensive letter from Johan Polak to Mrs. Van Royen in which he addresses her as a fellow lover of the art of book printing.

J.F. van Royen was one of the driving forces behind the first Dutch bibliophile printing house, De Zilverdistel Pers, and later the Kunera Pers. Polak was a bibliophile and publisher (Polak & Van Gennep/Atheneum).