Zedelijke bedenkingen

Zedelijke bedenkingen en spreuken. - Middelburg: H.A. Abrahams, 1806. - X, 47 p.; 58x46 mm.

Marbled paper over boards. 64º in the way of a folio.

"Moral reflections and proverbs". This miniature book is made (typeset, printed and bound) by Hendrik Adriaan Abrahams as a proof of his ability to be member of the Middelburg guild of printers and booksellers. At that time he was an employee in the bookshop of his aunt. A widow who also had a printing house where Hendrik printed this miniature. Later on he became owner of the bookshop and editor of a local newspaper. Making a miniature book as a specimen was - as far as I know - only the practice in Middelburg (Netherlands). In the preface he stated that the format was obligatory given by the commissioners of the guild but that he was free to make another one in a larger size. What he did; because there are some copies known of a book made by him (Geloofwaardige bewijzen dat de boekdrukkunst te Haarlem is uitgevonden. Middelburg; 1806) wherein this fact is mentioned