A revised and updated version of
Abraham Kuyper: An Annotated Bibliography 1857-2010 by Tjitze Kuipers (2011)
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1907
This edition was newly composed but retained the pagination of the previous printings as much as possible. The mispagination of the previous printings was rectified. On the title page the image of the Maid of Holland was omitted. The political platform for the electoral campaign of 1897 was left out. In the autumn of 1913, the edition was on sale for ƒ2.49 (unbd. ƒ2.-) as one of the premiums for the 1914 yearbook of the Dutch Federation of Young Men’s Associations on Reformed Principles.
Previous editions had included a list of Kuyper’s works on unnumbered pages at the end of the book. In this edition, however, the titles are numbered and rather than containing all of Kuyper’s books and brochures, the list includes only those titles which Wormser either published or acquired from other publishers’ lists. These total ninety-six titles. The list is like a balance sheet marking the end of the devotion and dedication that Wormser had shown for the dissemination of Kuyper’s “paper children.”
J.A. Wormser was a son-in-law of H. Höveker. The firms of Höveker & Zoon (est. 1870), J.A. Wormser (est. 1886; see 1886.14) and Höveker’s Boekhandel (est. 1831) were incorporated as the Naamloze Vennootschap Boekhandel: Höveker & Wormser to increase capital on July 1, 1896. However, the substantial financial injections of W. Hovy, who also stood surety for the firm, did not avail in the end. In 1907 the company came to grief. The decline was due in part to the South African branches in Pretoria and Potchefstroom, which suffered from the commercial disorder during and after the Second Boer War (1899–1902). On September 1, 1906, an employee, Wichert ten Have, took over the Boekhandel voorheen Höveker & Wormser and moved it to Kalverstraat 154 in Amsterdam. Wormser and his publishing house moved to Hilversum in early February 1907. In June 1907, J.W. Reese and R.C. Verweijck (employees of De Standaard) took over the publication of De Heraut and De Standaard. On June 4, 1907, the publishing house N.V. Höveker & Wormser, was founded in Hilversum. It lasted only a little more than a month before declaring bankruptcy on July 8, 1907.
After consulting with the author and in cooperation (see the letter from Kok to Kuyper dated November 27, 1907; GAK/AK) with the publisher S. Warendorf (†1918), the publisher J.H. Kok (1871–1940) bought nearly all the remaining works by Kuyper put up at the fund auction of December 12, 1907. Kuyper retained the copyright. Throughout its years as Kuyper’s publisher, J.H. Kok bought the remaindered copies of his works from other Dutch publishing houses whenever possible, just as Kruyt and Wormser had previously done. For information about Kuyper’s publishers, see also 1874.02 and 1886.14.