Duiker praises the businesslike design with its abundance of bright daylight and practical plan layouts that put books at the visitor's fingertips everywhere. But he criticizes the municipal ordinance that no façade lighting or illuminated advertising on the canals may be placed on façades further than 10 meters from radial streets. Duiker regrets that the bookstore is not 10 but 11 meters from the Leidse Street and thus may not illuminate its name from outside. Illustrations: ground and floor plans/Boekhandel Schröder en Dupont Keizersgracht 516 Amsterdam; photographs interior and facade with doomed light box/Boekhandel Schröder en Dupont Keizersgracht 516 Amsterdam