Detmold E J Illus Maeterlinck Maurice (3 results)

Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos. 213 pp. Illustrated with tipped-in color plates by Edward J. Detmold. Folio, publisher's pale green gilt cloth, t.e.g. Some light use at the extremities of the binding; but clean, tight and sound.

First edition, pairing Detmold's botanical illustrations with Maeterlinck's nature essays. "Detmold's finest plates are those produced for The Fables of Aesop (1909), The Life of the Bee (1911), and Hours of Gladness (1912), the latter with texts after Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian poet, naturalist and mystic. A painting of chrysanthemums, contained in Hours of Gladness, is a glorious acknowledgement of the artist's debt to William Morris and Burne Jones" (Larkin, p. 10). David Larkin, The Fantastic Creatures of Edward Julius Detmold, 1976. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 19 similar plates. Original white cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, gilt vignette to spine, covers decorated with floral illustrations in black, yellow and blue, author's monogram to pastedowns, edges untrimmed, some pages unopened. Cloth a little soiled, some light foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. …

First Detmold edition of the Nobel laureate's 1901 classic. Quarto. With 13 mounted colour plates. With publisher's promotional bookmark loosely inserted. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, rear cover and pastedowns with bee roundel in gilt and black, edges uncut. Vellum soiled, spine toned and a little cocked, extremities rubbed and gently bumped, contents clean and bright: a very good copy. …