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Entirely lithographed and colour-printed picture book on the Dutch Punch and Judy
[WIERINK, Bernard Willem].Jan Klaassen, verteld en geteekend door Oom Ben.      Buiksloot (= Amsterdam), J.M. Schalekamp, (1903). Large 8vo. Orig. colour-printed and decorated lithographed boards, with "Jan Klaasen" holding the crowned coat of arms of Amsterdam on front cover and circular vignette of "Pegasus" on back cover, designed by B.W. Wierink, alias "Oom Ben". With colour-printed frontispiece showing Saint Nicholas on horseback, and colour-printed lithographed plates throughout, beautifully designed in Art Nouveau style by the author, 15 full-page, incl. the frontispiece, and 17 with text and musical scores calligraphed on the stone. 32 pp. Very rare first edition of an entirely lithographed and colour-printed picture book for children containing a double story, beautifully calligraphed and illustrated parallel to each other. One story is about the adventures of the dolls of a little girl, and the other about the pranks of the "Jan Klaassen" puppets of a little boy. Both the dolls and the "Punch and Judy" figures had been given to the children by Saint Nicholas. The girl's dolls are very beautiful, and include a Japanese lady and a Surinam woman in colourful dress. The boy's "Punch and Judy" characters include Jan Klaassen, his spouse Katrijn, a young sailor with a pipe, a policeman, etc., and both the dolls and the "Punch and Judy" puppets often play together as well. They dance and sing together on the music written down underneath the plates and signed by the composer with the initials J.A.T. The story is told and depicted so vividly that the children could easily re-enact all that happened in a show of their own. "Uncle Ben" was the pseudonym of Bernard Willem Wierink (1856-1939), a fine Art Nouveau artist and pupil of C.A. Lion Cachet. Wierink was a drawing teacher and director of the "Industrie School" in Amsterdam. Several plates are signed with his monogram W.B.W. Fine copy.- (Boards sl. rubbed, spine sl. dam.; old owner's entry on first endpaper).
KLKL 725; not in Braches, Het Boek als Nieuwe Kunst.
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