175 years of Nijgh & Van Ditmar

Title: 175 years of Nijgh & Van Ditmar

Author: CJ Aarts

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789038894805

Condition: Good

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Description:
In 2012, Uitgeverij Nijgh & Van Ditmar will celebrate its 175th anniversary, making it the oldest general publisher in the Netherlands and Belgium. The history of Nijgh & Van Ditmar provides, in addition to the history of a business enterprise, a broad view of Dutch literature and the art of typography and book design. This richly illustrated book shows many book covers, covers and title pages.


On 1 January 1837, Henricus Nijgh establishes himself as a bookseller in Rotterdam. In December of that year, he publishes his first book and with that a new publishing house is born. Nijgh establishes the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant in 1844 and starts an advertising agency in 1846. He is one of the first publishers of Multatuli and makes a name for himself with publications of great foreign writers such as Charles Dickens, Heinrich Heine, Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo.

In 1864 H. Nijgh joins forces with WNJ van Ditmar and since 1 January 1870 the publishing house bears the name of both partners: Nijgh & Van Ditmar. The company is expanded with a steam-powered press printing house and focuses on the market of newspapers, calendars, picture postcards and illustrated weeklies, of which Wereldkroniek is the best known.

Around 1920, under the leadership of Doeke Zijlstra, Nijgh & Van Ditmar experienced a second literary heyday when it published work by Carry van Bruggen, Cyriel Buysse and Louis Couperus.


In the 1930s, Nijgh & Van Ditmar dominated Dutch literature with authors such as F. Bordewijk, Antoon Coolen, Albert Helman, Nescio, Maurice Roelants, Arthur van Schendel, J. Slauerhoff, S. Vestdijk and Gerard Walschap and with the publication of the magazine Forum under the direction of Menno ter Braak and E. du Perron.

The bombing of Rotterdam and the German occupation put a rude end to this glorious era. From its new location in The Hague, the publishing house consolidated its rich fund in the famous Nimmer Dralend Reeks and continued to publish new books by Bordewijk, Coolen and Vestdijk. In 1962, the publishing house acquired the avant-garde magazine Gard Sivik, with young authors such as Armando, Bob den Uyl, Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager and Hans Verhagen, which caused a brief literary revival.

When the publishing house moved to Amsterdam in 1987, another period of prosperity began
on. New authors of literature and non-fiction grow up at Nijgh & Van Ditmar, including Frans Pointl, Lisette Lewin, Bart Vos, Ronald Giphart, Kees van Beijnum, Arnon Grunberg, Marja Pruis, Johannes van Dam, Stella Braam, Annejet van der Zijl, Robert Vuijsje and Bas Haring.


175 years after its foundation, Nijgh & Van Ditmar has a varied collection of literature, biographies, investigative journalism, music history and cabaret.