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'Nieuwe Kunst' in New York-A Quaere

'Nieuwe Kunst' in New York-A Quaere ERNST BRACHES 'Nieuwe Kunst' in New York-A Quaere There were more antiquarian bookshops than wet days in Vancouver in May 1988.1 In one of these many bookshops, Ashley's Books, I followed an old habit and went through the shelf of religious literature. In that row of exalted wishes, prayers, thoughts and quotations, the well-known little volumes with the 'limp chamois' overhangs from the beginning of the cen- tury were not wanting. The contents of the velvety brown leather, lined on the inside with silk, do not usually exert any call on my cupidity. Respectability by Fra Elbertus turned out to be an exception to this rule. It is no chef-d-oeuvre of typography,2 if only because on pp. 100-101 the com- positor inserted a passage of seven lines, obviously sent in as an after- throught, by simply using less line space here than on the other pages of the book. The booklet is then one of the numerous products of the utopian com- munity which Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) founded in East Aurora, New York, in 1895. After a varied career (in which he rose to the directorship of Larkin Soap Company, then one of the biggest soap factories in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

'Nieuwe Kunst' in New York-A Quaere

Braches, Ernst; Simoni, Anna E. C.
Quaerendo , Volume 18 (3): 218 – Jan 1, 1988
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© 1988 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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ERNST BRACHES 'Nieuwe Kunst' in New York-A Quaere There were more antiquarian bookshops than wet days in Vancouver in May 1988.1 In one of these many bookshops, Ashley's Books, I followed an old habit and went through the shelf of religious literature. In that row of exalted wishes, prayers, thoughts and quotations, the well-known little volumes with the 'limp chamois' overhangs from the beginning of the cen- tury were not wanting. The contents of the velvety brown leather, lined on the inside with silk, do not usually exert any call on my cupidity. Respectability by Fra Elbertus turned out to be an exception to this rule. It is no chef-d-oeuvre of typography,2 if only because on pp. 100-101 the com- positor inserted a passage of seven lines, obviously sent in as an after- throught, by simply using less line space here than on the other pages of the book. The booklet is then one of the numerous products of the utopian com- munity which Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) founded in East Aurora, New York, in 1895. After a varied career (in which he rose to the directorship of Larkin Soap Company, then one of the biggest soap factories in

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