HARTOG, Henri.- VAN DEYSSEL [intr.].- NIJLAND [binding design].- — Sjofelen.

Rotterdam, W.L.Brusse [printing by G.J.Thieme Nijmegen], 1904. 4to. W. front. photogr. portrait. In original full coarse lightcol. cloth, 'omslag en bandversiering' by Dirk Nijland. (Spine a little age darkened, surface soiling). (VIII, 280 pp.). (at the end bound in a bookcatalogue of Brusse dated April 1915, indicating that a good 10 years after its initial publication in 1904 copies were still in stock at the Brusse publishing firm). First edition. Preface by Lodewijk van Deyssel in which he looks back on their first meeting and Hartog's contributions to literature, describing him as '...een die met heeler harte geloofde in onze Woordkunst en haar met onwanklebare trouw bleef aanhangen...'. The design for the binding [Spine and upper cover] by Dirk Nijland, see Brusse 'Fondscatalogus' [Van Beest / de Bode eds.], item 22. Printed in 1000 copies. 'Geb. Oplage: 6 exx. (kennelijk alleen voor eigen gebruik.). f. 3.50. Ing. Oplage: 413 exx. f 2.90.'. Henri Benjamin Hartog [1869 - 1904] ... Biogr. Woordenboek v.h. Socialisme [P. van Meertens ed.], vol. 8, pp. 69 - 72: Noordegraaf & IJzerman, Henri Hartog, schrijver van Zwart Schiedam [Amst., 1980], 124 - 7: