The collection offers, together with the bindings of the medieval manuscripts and the incunabula and post-incunabula, an excellent survey of the art of book binding in the Netherlands. Few styles, periods or binders are lacking.
Some periods however are still under-exposed.
But with new acquisitions, an attempt is made to provide for these deficiencies. Typical Dutch binding Book binding, probably made about 1746, produced in red morocco with local staining and gold stamping. Den Haag, 1650-1746. The binding was tooled solely with lines and smaller hand stamps, the most important of which, in the central lozenges and triangles, were made especially for those places. Book binding made of smoothly polished brown calf, with blind stamps.