LEIDEN - RAADHUISPERS]. BURGOMASTER & ALDERMEN.

Deductie of Remonstrantie van wegehen den Burgermeesteren ende Regierders der Stadt Leyden, ter vergaderinge vande Mo. E. Heeren Staten van Hollant ende West-Vrieslant gedaen, jegens de geprendeerde perceptie van thienden op wortelen, cool, ajuyn, saladen, ploc-boonen, ende diergelijcke aertvruchten, in warmoes-hoven wassende. Daer voren . : Eerst de acte vande resolutie by de . Heeren Staten . opten dertienden Decembris . 1602. Ten tweeden, twee placcarten by tijden van . Kaerle de Vijfde, . inden jaren xx. ende xxix. Ende . tadvijs van den Hoogen ende Provincialen Raden, . den achtienden Martij . zestien-hondert ende drie voorleden. .Leiden, "opt raedthuys" [= Jan van Hout], August 1603. 4to (22 x 15.5 cm). With 2 large woodcut interlaced

      - (61), (3 blank) pp. Knuttel 1235; Karlsruher Virt. Kat. (1 copy? issue unclear); OCLC WorldCat (1 copy); NCC (1 copy); STCN (2 copies); not in Van Alphen, Pamfletten; Broekema, Pamfletten; Carter & Vervliet; Simoni; Tiele, Pamfletten; Van der Wulp. First issue of rare pamphlet produced for internal use by the Leiden city government opposing a tax on carrots, cabbage, onions, lettuce, beans and other garden produce, and including texts from relevant proclamations by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1520 and 1529, a decision of the Holland States Assembly on 13 December 1602, and the advice of the Provincial Council in the Hague on 18 March 1603. The whole was printed on the press set up in Leiden's city hall by the city clerk, Jan van Hout, and the title-page explicitly notes that it was printed in only a small number of copies for the city's official representatives at a meeting of the Holland States Assembly ("Alles in weynich exemplaren, om alleenlicken onder den steden en(de) leden ter vergaderinge vande Mo. E. Heeren Staten plaetse ende voys hebbende, te werden gedistribueert"). As a result the pamphlet is very rare. It is also of considerable typographic interest for its four civilité types (two used for extensive sections) and initials. It is not in Carter & Vervliet, which records only one Van Hout publication that uses all four of his civilité types (in 1602). The 3-line Text (about 51 point) initials used with the largest civilités may also be printed from cast type, for they are clearly a larger size of one whose matrices survive (Carter & Vervliet, p. 87: one letter from the larger series appears in fig. 24 on p. 50) and both sets were first used, as far as is known, in a 1576 book published by Willem Silvius in 1587. Van Hout's excellent press-work and choice of high quality Troyes paper (at least three stocks, one made by Edmon(d) Denise and one by the Le Bé family: similar to Briquet 5097, 8080-8083 and 13194) show all the types to good advantage. The press was active from 1578 to 1609.There are two versions of the pamphlet, and the descriptions available suggest that the other is a reissue with several leaves removed, added or replaced. Since the total number of printed leaves remains the same, it is difficult to distinguish the two in catalogues that give neither a collation nor a fingerprint. We have located three other copies of the first issue, two copies of the reissue, and one or two of uncertain issue. The present first issue collates A-H4 (with H4 blank) with STCN fingerprint: 160304 - b1 A2 esurc : b2 H2,$ajuyn and VD17-style fingerprint: del- gen, e.ie ghte.With marginal worm holes in a few leaves, slightly affecting 3 words of the text, but further in fine condition and only slightly trimmed, with the final blank leaf still present and only an occasional minor marginal blemish. The pattern of worm holes show that the present copy was stored in sheets, so its survival with generous margins and in remarkably good condition may result from its survival unused and unbound until the late nineteenth century, when the present binding was made. A rare pamphlet on garden produce taxes, printed in a very small edition for Leiden city representatives and using four civilité types.