Du Perron

History of the collection: The collection has been acquired over a period of years and received its first impulse in 1954 with a donation by AAM Stols.
Size: The collection comprises approximately one hundred titles.
Accessibility: The books are listed in the KB online public catalogue. They are also available for reference in the Special Collections department.
More information: Arno Kuipers 070-3140561

The collection

In 1954, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek was given an important collection of books and journals from the estate of the publisher AAM Stols as a gift of the Friends of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. The gift concerned a collection of books by the writer E Du Perron (1899-1940) plus several sets of journals for which Du Perron had written articles or served as occasional editor, such as Forum, Avontuur, and the special issues of De driehoek. Stols published a great deal of De Perron's work between 1925 and 1946. In 1947 Stols published a biography of Du Perron written by GH 's-Gravesande. In 1948 he published a bibliography of Du Perron's work, a significant portion of which was based on Stols's own collection, which is now housed in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. What makes the books interesting is that many of them contain annotations by the author. The collection also includes a number of extremely rare editions of which no more than twenty or thirty copies were issued. The gaps are being filled in by means of antiquarian acquisition whenever possible.

Literature

Marieke van Delft and Clemens de Wolf. 'E. du Perron'. In: Vriendschap in vereniging. Red. M. van Delft ... [et al.]. Den Haag 1988, p. 112-114.
'Du Perron'. In: Honderd hoogtepunten uit de Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Zwolle 1994, p. 190-191. (Also in electronic form).