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De achttiende-eeuwse Haagse boekband in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek en het Rijksmuseum Meermanno Westreenianum / The Hague Bookbindings of the Eighteenth Century in the Royal Library and the Rijksmuseum Meermanno-Westreenianum
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With a summary in English. The standard reference work and study on the subject.
Dr. Jan Storm van Leeuwen (1943) studied Art History at the University of Utrecht. From 1968 until his retirement in December 2005 he was employed by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Royal Library) in The Hague, where he worked for the larger part of his career as a rare book librarian specializing in book bindings. He also lectured at the Plantin Society in Antwerp, Belgium and the Rare Book School in Charlottesville, USA. He has published many articles on books and the art and history of bookbinding, including ‘The well-shirted book-binding, on chemise bindings and Hülleneinbände’, in: Theatrum Orbis Librorum. Liber Amicorum presented to Nico Israel… (Utrecht, 1989), 100 trésors de la reliure Néerlandaise du XVIIIe siècle. Exposition Bibliothèque Royale (The Hague, 1997) and Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century (4 Vols.) (Houten, 2006).