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HISTOIRE du Livre et de l’Imprimerie en Belgique des Origines a nos Jours. Bruxelles. 1923-1934. - HISTOIRE du Livre et de l’Imprimerie en Belgique des Origines a nos Jours . Bruxelles: Le Musée du Livre, 1923-1934. 6 v.: il.; 305 mm. This collection of six parts is a fundamental reference work on the history of books and typography in the Netherlands and Belgium, published by the Musée du Livre in Brussels between 1923 and 1934 as independent fascicles, each part dealing with a specific period or field. The collection was compiled by distinguished specialists: Henri Liebrecht dealt with illuminated manuscripts in the Netherlands up to the end of the 15th century and, in the sixth and final part (entirely his own work), with printing and books from 1800 to his time; Auguste Vincent covered Belgian typography of the 15th century, and then of the 17th and 18th centuries in Brussels and the rest of the country; A.-J.-J. Delen was responsible for the illustration of the book before 1800; Maurice Sabbe studied Antwerp typography of the 16th century, Plantin and his contemporaries, and Antwerp typography of the 17th and 18th centuries; Joseph Brassinne dealt with printing in Liège up to the end of the Ancien Régime; and Paul Bergmans with Belgian musical typography of the 16th century. Even a hundred years later, the work remains an irreplaceable reference tool for the study of the history of the Belgian book, cited as an obligatory starting point by all subsequent historiography on the subject. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate