Twelve things · updated every Tuesday

Everything we keep, and how much of it is left.

No seasons, no drops, no waiting list. When a line goes it goes, and the date it comes back sits on the card where the price would be.

The corner of a thick block of paper photographed close
Octavo No. 4 — in stockQuarto ledger — three leftFoolscap pads — back 14 AprilBottled ink — eleven coloursGelder pen — three weeksStick ink — one left

Books, pens, ink and paper

An open notebook being written in by hand on a marble table, seen from above

Octavo No. 4

Ruled · dotted · plain

€24,00In stock
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An old book lying open at two pages of close handwriting

Quarto ledger

192 pages · 288 pages

€38,00Three left
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A desk lamp lighting an open notebook and a pen at night

Elburg day book

Dated 2027 · undated

€29,50In stock
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A hand writing in pencil on an open notepad, shavings across the page

Sexto pocket

Ruled · plain · pack of two

€12,00In stock
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An open notebook and a sharpened pencil resting on a wooden table

Vischpoort compendium

Oak · walnut · A4 writing slope

€64,00Two left
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Hands holding a blank card over a dark table

Correspondence cards, fifty

Deckled · cut square

€19,00In stock
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A sheet of folded, creased off-white paper filling the frame

Mill laid letter paper, 100

100 gsm · 120 gsm

€21,00In stock
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A fountain pen held nib-down over a ruled sheet

Gelder fountain pen

Extra fine · fine · medium · broad

€118,00Made to order · three weeks
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A pen resting on a half-written letter beside a pile of envelopes

Brass desk pen and rule

Brass · blackened brass

€46,00Four left
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Dip pens standing in open ink bottles on a dark shelf

Bottled ink, 50 ml

Eleven colours · mixed here

€14,50In stock
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A hand rolling black ink across a slab with a brayer

Stick ink and suzuri stone

Pine soot · oil soot

€72,00One left
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Pages of close handwriting curling against a glass inkwell on a dark desk

If you only buy one thing

The Octavo No. 4

176 pages of 90 gsm Dutch wove, sewn in eight-page sections so it lies flat on the first page and the last. Three rulings, one price, and a replacement block when you fill it. It is the book two thirds of this shop's customers come back for.

It comes in three rulings and three cloths, with the ribbon sewn in before the endpapers go on, and when you have filled it we will take the block out and rebind it for €55 rather than sell you another one.

€24,00
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Before you order

What does delivery cost?

€4,95 in the Netherlands, €9,50 across the European Union, free over €75. Orders before 14.00 on a working day leave the same afternoon; everything is tracked and nothing needs a signature.

Can I send something back?

Thirty days from the day it arrives, written in or not. We refund the item and the outward postage. Opened ink is the single exception and the bottles say so on the label we print here.

What does “back 14 April” actually mean?

It is the date the mill has given us for the next making, plus four days for the ruling. If it slips we change the date rather than quietly leaving it. Write to the counter and we will put your name against the first pallet.

Do you rebind a book I have filled?

Yes. A full rebind in cloth over boards is €55 and takes about three weeks. Bring it to the counter or post it; we photograph the book before we take it apart and send you the picture.

Is the ink safe in a vintage pen?

Nine of the eleven colours are plain dye inks at neutral pH and go in anything. The two iron gall colours, Vischpoort and Beekstraat, should not sit in a celluloid barrel for weeks; flush them every fortnight and they are fine.

Not sure which paper?

Ask at the counter. That is what the counter is for.

Sheets of white paper with torn deckle edges, layered one on another

Say which pen, which ink and roughly how fast you write, and somebody who has filled thirty pages of the stock in question will answer. If a line of it needs photographing while it dries, we photograph it.

In the shop the whole sample book is cut to full-page sheets with a jar of pens beside it. Nobody will hover and nobody minds how many sheets you spoil.

Everything on this page is priced in euros with 21% BTW already in it, posted the same afternoon on orders before 14.00, and returnable for thirty days whether or not you have written in it.

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