Illus Maurice Detmold (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Originally serialised in the late 1800s, Rudyard Kipling's stories about little 'man cub' Mowgli and his jungle friends and foes are presented here in an unabridged clothbound edition with illustrations by Victorian artists Edward and Maurice Detmold. Age 9+. You! (illustrator). …

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.

hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Full green cloth binding with extensive gilt decoration & lettering to front board & spine; top edge gilt and others untrimmed, 10-3/4" x 8", 213 pp., tipped-in plate illustrations on grey leaves. All illustrations present. Slight wear to extremities, near fine with beautiful interior. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping. …

Quarto, cream heavy boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & boards, deckled page edges, printed eps, vii + 235pp, illus/plates- all present, VG- (heavy bruising & cracking to spine with 7cm loss to top spine extrem, moderate bruising to board corners, moderate staining to spine & boards, moderate tanning to page edges, ex-libris plate to ffep, light cracking to some gutters). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 265 p. interspersed with plates. 26 cm. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and 12 other tipped-in colour plates by Detmold. Green cloth with gold print. Some dents to bottom edges, soiling to cloth. Hinges professionally repaired. Clean, neat pages. "It is not my intention to write a treatise on apiculture, or on practical bee-keeping" begins Maeterlinck and it might be said that this volume pertains more to life than it does to bees. The Life of the Bee is for readers curious about a brilliant thinker's meditations on nature. Not surprisingly, Maeterlinck won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1911. A beautiful volume, illustrated by the gifted Edward J. Detmold.…

Translated by A. Teixeira de Mattos. x, 181 [2] pp. Illustrated with 20 tipped-in color plates by E. J. Detmold. Folio, publisher's white gilt-decorated cloth, in dust jacket. First edition; Large Paper edition. A beautiful copy in the scarce dust jacket with small chips at the extremities of the spine (not touching any lettering.…

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. …

First edition, sole impression. Macmillan issued this sumptuous portfolio at five guineas, advertising the illustrations as reproductions "in colour from the Original Drawings in the highest style of Lithography". The 16 watercolours had been exhibited at the Dutch Gallery in London and were subsequently incorporated, in reduced format, into Macmillan's 1908 edition of The Jungle Book. The illustrations rank among the Detmold brothers' most celebrated work. A modern study of British book illustration describes the series as a "masterpiece of Edwardian era", singling out Shere Khan in the Jungle for its synthesis of Japanese pictorial influence, anatomical observation, and elaborate detail. Quoting Rodney Engen's study of the golden age of illustration, it notes how the brothers' understanding of nature enabled them to create the "mythology and harshness of the natural world". Nicholas Alfrey & Richard Verdi, Charles Maurice and Edward Julius Detmold: A Centenary Exhibition, 1983; Rodney Engen, The Age of Enchantment, 2007; Iain MacPhail, "The Detmold Twins", The Book Collector, Autumn 2024, pp. 48193; Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Nature, War and the Art of the Detmold Twins, 2026; David Alan Richards, Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliography, 2010. Folio. 16 coloured chromolithograph prints on thin card (sheet sizes: 330×430mm) tipped onto white board with grey window mounts (mount sizes: 393×545mm) with cover sheet to each illustration providing the title and a short extract from the book. Original green cloth chemise, front cover lettered and with illustration in gilt, containing title page, contents leaf and 16 loose prints. Housed in a custom grey cloth folding box. Chemise worn with loss, front cover detached, bookplate removed, lacking ties, occasional chips and tears to extremities of cover sheets, light browning to sheets, fold to title page and contents leaf strengthened, prints bright and unfaded; a good set.…