Special Prints
Gezelle made notes in his own books or dedicated his own poetry collections to his friends. Nowadays Gezelle's poems still inspire artists to print special editions.
The Collection
You can find all the works written on Gezelle and his time in the Guido Gezelle Archives. We also collect all special editions of the works of Gezelle.
Discover some special editions.
Verses by Guido Gezelle
The bibliophile edition of Verses is an anthology of Gezelle’s poems. It appeared in 1902, shortly after the author’s death. Each one of the 100 luxury copies contains an original Gezelle autograph. For example, the manuscript of the poem Platanus Orientalis L. is present in Verses.
Verzen van Guido Gezelle (Verses of Guido Gezelle), Amsterdam: Veen, 1902.
XXXIII Short Poems
This is a unique copy of the XXXIII Kleengedichtjes containing the text for the third, multiplied edition including handwritten corrections by Gezelle. This copy also has an alternative design for the new title and handwritten copies of “short poems” by Hugo Verriest, who was a student of Gezelle in Roeselare.
XXXIII Kleengedichtjes (XXXIII Short Poems), Guido Gezelle, Brugge: Dezuttere, 1872.
Short Poems with notes
The Raven and Dead Seagull
In this beautiful bibliophile work with a cover design by Alex Barbaix, printed at Pastei Press in Amsterdam, we get one poem by Guido Gezelle (The Raven) and one poem by Jacques Hamelink (Dead Seagull). Jacques Hamelink received the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his work on December 16th, 1988. On this occasion, he had his poem Dead Seagull printed in a limited edition of 72 copies.
The Raven
In 36 copies he included Gezelle’s poem The Raven. It is a spooky, somewhat moralistic poem about an old raven. Printing the two poems together, Jacques Hamelink invites you to discover the parallels and differences. The two poems are wrapped in a special sheet of paper, on which an illustration by Alex Barbaix and the colophon are printed. The cover is held together by a skewer and raffia. The work is considered to be one of the highlights in recent Dutch bibliophile printing history.
De rave / De dode meeuw (The Raven / The Dead Seagull), Guido Gezelle & Jacques Hamelink, Amsterdam: Pastei, 1988.
