Halcyon. Driemaandelijksch Tijdschrift voor Boek-, Druk- en Prentkunst. A Quarterly devoted to Book Production and the Graphic Arts, 1940-1942
The Hague: A. A. M. Stols
A complete run.
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Twelve issues in nine parts. The periodical is one of the chief typographic achievements of midcentury Dutch printing; but lest it be misconstrued as a regional enterprise it should be...
Twelve issues in nine parts. The periodical is one of the chief typographic achievements of midcentury Dutch printing; but lest it be misconstrued as a regional enterprise it should be emphatically understood that it garnered interest and engaged collaborators across Europe. Of course this internationalism is evident in the subtitles that appear in Dutch, French, English, and German. It is apparent, too, in the range of illustration and printing techniques it presents to its readership, and in the artists it employed to do so: M. C. Escher, John Buckland Wright, S. H. de Roos, and François-Victor Hugo herald a roster of eminent designers, illustrators, and engravers whose works appear either as integrated drawings or as separate plates. These latter often appear on the market singly, especially those of Escher. Hardly ever are they encounter in situ, and even rarer is the compilation of all plates and texts together in their proper issues, in the full set. Hence an altogether scarce archive, with each issue of loose gatherings demarcated by tables of contents as wrappers, and held in separate, printed folios. Some toning and edgewear to these containers, but contents quite fine.
