Holland; in Plaats Van Foto. By M. Nijhoff. [4] pp.Illustrated with 5 colour stenciled images including the cover.4to., 270 x 215 mm, bound in publisher’s illustrated wrapper.[Groningen], De Blauwe Schuit, 1942.
A fine example of one of H.N. Werkman’s clandestine publications, hand pressed and illustrated by the artist during the Second World War.Here, he illustrates two poems by fellow countryman, Martis Nijhoff, whose name does not appear anywhere in the publication likely for his safety.Werkman (1882-1945) would tragically be executed on April 10, 1945, just three days before the liberation of Gronigen.
Translated, the colophon reads:
‘These poems by the poet of De Blauwe Schuit were printed and illuminated in December 1942 by H.N. Werkman. The edition is limited to 120 copies that are not commercially available and are intended for the friends of De Blauwe Schuit.’
Rare, OCLC finds 5 copies in the US at Harvard, R.I.T., Northwestern, the Getty and the Newberry.A fine copy.
Hendrik Werkman en de Blauwe Schuit Ate Zuidhoff, Utrecht Swerz 1995.Jong 394.
