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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
 Interior of a printing shop annexe bookshop, 1499

Creator
 Husz, Mathias (drukker/printer)

Year
 1499

Type
 illustratie, illustration

Related term
 boekdrukkerijen, boekhandels, houten handpersen, drukken, zetten

Period
 15e eeuw

Classification
 D: Geschiedenis van de boekdrukkunst

Content
 Oldest known picture of both a printing shop, a printing press and a bookshop. On the left, the printers are working, on the right we see a bookseller behind a counter. Death takes them all by the arm and from the dialogue below it appears that their final hour has come. The picture gives a nice indication of what a 15th-century printing house and bookseller's might have looked, also in our regions.

Original
 Anoniem. - La Grant Danse macabre des hommes et des femmes. - Lyon: Mathias Husz, 1499, p. 6

@description
 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek

@reproduction
 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek