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This image bank contains approximately 1400 digitized images about the history of the printed book in the Netherlands, largely originating from the collections of the KB. The images can be downloaded and used with the stated credit line.

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Title
 Advertisement for the layout of a shop window of a bookshop, 1912

Creator
 onbekend

Year
 1912

Type
 advertentie, advertisement

Measurements
 13,5 x 13 cm.

Related term
 boekhandels, reclame

Period
 20e eeuw

Classification
 G: Boekhandel en uitgeverij

Content
 Booksellers were conservative in the layout of their shops: not much had changed in the Netherlands since 1830. This almost life-like young lady, reading in a deck chair in the shop window must have been an absolutely revolutionary idea.

Original
 Nieuwsblad voor den Boekhandel, 1912, no. 10, p. 167

available in
 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag AW.A 06b NIE (1912:10)

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 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek

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 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek