Albert Struik

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Albert Samuel Abraham Struik (also ASA Struik ; March 23, 1926 in Deventer - July 5, 2006 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch book collector , primarily of books with publisher covers from the period 1880 to 1940.

Struik studied economics in Amsterdam. He worked as a publisher for Samsom, Alphen aan den Rijn and specialized in documentary publications.

He began collecting books from industrial book production as early as 1955. He realized that the cover and dust jacket are an integral part of a book. Collecting publisher's covers was an unusual field of collecting; there were very few collectors of this type of book in the world.

In 1973 Het Boek appeared as a nieuwe art. 1892-1903. A study in Art Nouveau by the book historian Ernst Braches . Stimulated by this, Struik began to document his collection more precisely, which, however, was quite difficult in view of the data situation in this area of ​​book history. He recorded data on the binding, typography , vignettes and monograms and tried to make assignments to designers and manufacturers. He described about 11,000 volumes in this way.

Before his death in 2006, he left 8000 volumes of his collection at the University of Amsterdam . The other 3,000 went to the Meermanno-Westreenianum book museum in The Hague .

literature

  • ASA Struik: Nederlandse industriële boekbanden Universiteitsbibliotheek, Amsterdam 2000, ISBN 90-6125-094-3 (with an interview with ASA Struik on the collection).
  • ASA Struik, Tanja de Boer: Machinaal en mooi, industriële boekbanden uit de collectie Struik. Museum van het Boek - Museum Meermanno Westreeënianum The Hague 1999, OCLC 67833707 .
  • Hans Hafkamp, ​​Carla van de Poel: Het verzamelen van boekbanden. In esprek met ASA structure, met 21 afbeeldingen van boekbanden, alsmede een lijst van signatures. In: de Boekenwereld. Vol. 12, No. 3, February 1996, ISSN  0168-8391 , OCLC 770374254 .
  • Fons van der Linden in samenwerking with ASA structure: De Jas van het Woord. Samsom Alphen aan den Rijn, 1989, ISBN 90-14-04362-7 .
  • Fons van der Linden met medewerking van ASA structure: In linnen gebonden - Nederlandse uitgeversbanden van 1840 to 1940. Gaade, Veenendaal 1987, ISBN 90-6017-841-6 .
  • Ernst Braches: Nieuwe kunst en het Boek . De Buitenkant Amsterdam 2003, ISBN 90-76452-94-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ASA structure: Nederlandse industrie ͏̈ le boekbanden . Amsterdam 2000, p. 7 .
  2. ^ Bijzondere Collecties. Universiteit van Amsterdam, accessed on March 30, 2017 (Dutch, the collection is mentioned under “Most important collecties”).
  3. ↑ Industriėle boekbanden: de collectie Struik. Historiek.net, January 22, 2013, accessed on March 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Struik, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Struik, Albert Samuel Abraham (full name); Struik, ASA
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch book collector and bibliophile
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Deventer
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 2006
Place of death Amsterdam