Een Zwierige Eenvoud (An Elegant Simplicity: The Number Stamps of Jan van Krimpen)

How’s this for elegant simplicity? Bram de Does’s most coveted book, with stamps by Jan van Krimpen, is a sweet treasure printed from Romanée types (and includes a nice specimen of the 10-point printed straight from the metal). The book as issued contains tipped-in, used specimens of JvK’s 1946 beauties. The essay gives the full story of Van Krimpen’s design—but it’s in Dutch, so unless you can read that language, this is just a pretty book.

But wait! There’s more! We’ll include an unpublished English translation so you can know what the heck this is all about. Translated into English by a human, now this pretty book is a useful tool, too. Covetable and useful. What more can one ask for in a book?