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Magnificently bound for Aaron de Pinto by the 'Fleur-de-Lis Bindery' at The Hague; with the original drawings for the frontispieces

WETSTEIN, Georg.
Het gelukkig toeval. Bly-eindend treurspel.

With printer's device of a beehive with the motto 'Yver in liefde bloeiende'; and engraved frontispiece by A. Zeeman, together with the original washed and tinted drawing by the same.

With printer's device of a beehive with the motto 'Yver in liefde bloeiende'; and engraved frontispiece by A. Zeeman, together with the original washed and tinted drawing by the same.

With printer's device of a beehive with the motto 'Yver in liefde bloeiende'; and engraved frontispiece by A. Zeeman, together with the original washed and tinted drawing by the same.

With printer's device of a beehive with the motto 'Yver in liefde bloeiende'; and engraved frontispiece by A. Zeeman, together with the original washed and tinted drawing by the same.

With printer's device of a beehive with the motto 'Yver in liefde bloeiende'; and engraved frontispiece by A. Zeeman, together with the original washed and tinted drawing by the same.



Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje en Dirk Rank, 1721. 3 vols. in one. 8vo. Contemporary olive morocco, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, richly gilt ornamental borders and several tools on both sides, including a stamp with the monogram 'A J D P' (also on spine), and with an inlay of a gilt coat-of-arms with 5 crescents (the coat-of-arms of Aaron de Joseph de Pinto) stamped on red morocco in the centre of both sides; gilt binding edges and inner dentelles, g.e. and marbled endpapers (see also the note). With printer's device of a beehive with the motto 'Yver in liefde bloeiende'; and engraved frontispiece by A. Zeeman, together with the original washed and tinted drawing by the same. 88 pp.

With:
(2) IDEM. Erik, Prins van Zweden. Treurspel. Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje and Dirk Rank, 1722. 8vo. 83 pp. With printer's device with the motto 'Perseveranter'; and  engraved frontispiece by J. Wandelaar, together with the original washed and tinted drawing by the same.

(3) IDEM. Gustavus Adolphus. Koning van Zweden, beschermer der Duitsche vryheit. Oorlogspel. Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje and Dirk Rank, 1723. 8vo. 87 pp. With printer's device with the motto 'Perseveranter'; and  engraved frontispiece, together with the original washed and coloured drawing.

First and only editions of these three plays written by Georg Wetstein for the Amsterdam Theatre. All three plays rank among the better, well written plays from the beginning of the eighteenth century, composed by order of the board of the Amsterdam Orphanage and Old men's home, at the same time the board of the Amsterdam Theatre.

The original washed and tinted (and coloured (3)) drawings, or designs for the three engraved frontispieces are mounted and bound in after the engraved frontispiece of each play. The artist of the first, draughtsman and engraver, is Abraham Zeeman (1695-1754); Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759) is the draughtsman and engraver of the frontispiece of the second play.

The book is magnificently bound for the wealthy Amsterdam merchant Aaron de Joseph de Pinto (1710-1758), who was of Jewish-Portuguese origin. De Pinto was a book collector and had his books bound mainly by two binders: (1) an Amsterdam binder working for him in the years 1743-1765, and (2) the so-called 'Heraldische Lelie-binderij' (or Fleur-de-Lis Bindery) at The Hague, working for De Pinto during the years around 1735-40. Four stamps and a roll of this bindery are used for the binding of our copy, as well as stamp B of the three stamps with the coat-of-arms of De Pinto and a stamp with the monogram with his initials: 'A J D P'.
Fine magnificently bound copy for Aaron de Joseph de Pinto, with the engraved book-plates of De Pinto and Six van Hillegom, pasted to the verso of the first end-paper.
Van der Aa W, p. 51; Van Aken I, 455; Worp II, 141; binding: Storm van Leeuwen, De 18e-eeuwse Haagse boekband, p. 76-79; p. 398, stamps 23, 27, 14, 37/38; nrs. 118-22, and Plate 12; Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch decorated bookbinding in the eighteenth century (2006), IIA, p. 111-12.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Amsterdam  Bindings  Drawing & Painting  Dutch  Literary History  Theatre 

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