When the publisher Menno Hertzberger issued the first volumes based on Hollstein‘s research: in 1949 no one could expect that it should take more than 55 years to reach the end with the publication of index volumes, which will be published in a few years. After the death of Hollstein the editorship has rested with the late Karel G. Boon of the Rijksmuseum print room during 1974-1984, and since then with the former Keeper of prints of the Rijksmuseum, Mrs Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer. Her successor at the Rijksmuseum, Ger Luijten, has acted as guest editor for the volumes on Vredeman de Vries. The same goes for Jan Vander Stock for the volumes on The Wierix family. Scholarly discussion of the significance of key designers has led to the publication of the well-received volumes on Maarten de Vos and Hans and Paul Vredeman de Vries. Among the contributions on peintre-graveurs, the publications on Antoni Waterloo and Moyses van Wtenbrouck included detail illustrations on a scale unprecedented for Hollstein, which has contributed significantly to the ease in establishing a particular state. The long-awaited catalogue raisonné of Reinier Nooms, called Zeeman, who was not included under N in the Hollstein series has been published a few year ago.
The series nearly has reached completion, the forthcoming volumes on Wierix book illustrations and the earlier called Index volumes will complete this series within a few years.