Since I was a child I loved Vermeer. And through the years that love has grown up and has become in a real subject of perpetual admiration . There are magnificent essays about the trascendence and remarkable importance of Johannes Vermeer (I really recommend for you to seek a Marcel Brion study, for instance).
A friend of mine three years ago sent me a very brief conference in which Dali literally confessed that Vermeer was his favorite painter .
This book is a treasure . The information is precise and fundamental . The reproductions are top of the line . This is a fundamental book for you and all the friends and well aprecciated human being you know who really cares about the art .
Watch carefully the mesmerized face of the people in the Metropolitan Musseum in front of any of his paintings ,since I did it in 1998 . I was almost two hours exploring every little detail of every work.
In this sense I really recommend a hidden artistic film of the nineties titled All the Vermeers in New York (Jon Jost) (see my review).

Every postcard in this book is beautiful. Each will make the recipient feel special. I am convinced of it.