1924.06

De drie formulieren van eenigheid, gelijk die voor de Gereformeerde Kerken dezer landen zijn vastgesteld op de Nationale Synode van Dordrecht. Uitgegeven voor kerkelijk gebruik door Dr. A. Kuyper. Met het “Kort Begrip” als aanhangsel.

Een-en-dertigste vijfduizend.

Kampen, J.H. Kok [1924]. 156 pp., 16cm.—ƒ0.55.

No longer printed with the stereotype plates (see 1909.31), this edition has been reset. The lettering on the title page and front cover has been restyled, and there is no half-title or date. A note has also been added to Article 36 of the Belgic Confession, which ascribes to the office of the magistrate the authority “to prevent and uproot all idolatry and false worship in order to destroy the kingdom of the Antichrist,” stating that “this phrase [was] struck by the General Synod of Utrecht in 1905.”

From the publication of this (fourth) edition, subsequent printings and title editions were published without any mention of the publication year. From the contracts between Kuyper and Wormser it turns out that a contract had already been signed in 1898 for the publication of two subsequent printings (very likely produced in one print run as printing and title edition). Records of the firm J.H. Kok, which took over the publication rights from Wormser in 1907 (see 1907.22), show that two editions were printed simultaneously each time. The first part of the print run was published with the date of the year in which both were printed; the copies of the second part of the run were usually dated a year later on the title page and cover. Up to this point, these editions have been classified under the above-mentioned years of publication because those years corresponded nicely with their release dates. However, for the next undated printings and title editions, it is only possible to gather from Kok’s records when each set of pairs was printed. Since by now it was taking longer than a year for a printing to sell out, it is not possible to specify exactly when the second half of a given print run actually entered the market. Thus the paired printings and title editions will from here on be listed next to one another under the same year in which they were printed.