Beschrijving
Amsterdam Gebroeders Kraay, 1865, 8vo., 4 volumes, half leather and marbled paper bindings, with a leather titleplate and goldtooling on spine, volume 1: xii + 320 pp., volume 2: xi + 353 pp. + 5 appendice (of which 4 facsimile prints), volume 3: 360 + 6 appendices (of which 3 facsimile prints) + [3] pp, volume 4: 357 pp. + 2 appendices (facsimiles). With a portrait of C. van Lennep and D.J. van Lennep. The books are in very good condition and beautifully bound, only some scratches on the spine and some wear along the bottom edges of the bindings, s ome foxing, and one page has regreetably been repaired with cellotape.
Biography of the generations Van Lennep. At first it was Jacob van Lennep's intention to publish his father's
formerly unplublished poems, with a short introduction to his life. The work gradually expended and grew.
Lit.: Van Lennep, Het leven van Mr. Jacob van Lennep (Amsterdam, 1910) II, p.206

