(De Zilverdistel) Albert Verwey - Het eigen rijk - 1912

(THE SILVER THISTLE). Albert Verwey, His Own Realm. The Hague, De Zilverdistel, 1912. Bound with a perkaline cover. (4), 148 pages. Printed by Enschedé with a 17th-century type from the type foundry of Hendrik Claesz in an edition of 100 numbered copies. 1st edition. Perkaline (as usual) not pristine: holes in the spine, stains on the front and back.

'Now the water is still, then it crashes and bangs loudly,/ Then roils and roars wildly and blows its crested foam out' ('The Fundamental Tone'). The cycle 'Die de boog spant' consists of short and kernel-like poems. The other two sections contain longer, ugly poetry. All set in an almost too beautiful 17th-century type with a distracting long s.

This is one of the first Dutch bibliophile editions from the group Greshoff-Van Eyck-Bloem, which had founded De Zilverdistel in 1909.