S.H. de Roos en Zijn Heuvelpers

Amsterdam: Halcyon, 1942. Softcover. Good. Softcover. [IN DUTCH] Sjoerd Hendrik (S.H.) de Roos (1877-1962), was a Dutch type designer and book cover designer. He was inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement. He is best known for the design of a new type face, the Hollandsche Mediæval. In total, he designed twelve type faces. In 1926, he founded the Heuvelpers, a small printing house with a hand press set up in his home in Hilversum. Here he created the stamps and dies of a new 14-point letter, called Hawthorn, to be used exclusively for the publications of the Heuvelpers. A. A. M. Stols was a Dutch printer and publisher, known for his collection of limited editions of Dutch poetry. This short work is from a monograph to be published by NV Lettergieterij, Amsterdam. It is set in Hawthorn-letter and printed for Halcyon by JF Duwaer on Zonen in Amsterdam. Quarto. Gray paper wrappers, with title in black to front wrapper. Saddle-stitched. Sunning to front and rear wrappers, especially at top edges; bumping to edges of wrappers; other signs of handling. Pages are yellowed but clean. 8 numbered pages of text, plus a sample printing of the Hawthorn typeface, and 7 pages of printing examples. DUTCHLANG/022224.