MAETERLINCK Maurice: La Vie des abeilles. Société des Amis d - Lot 267

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MAETERLINCK Maurice: La Vie des abeilles. Société des Amis d - Lot 267
MAETERLINCK Maurice: La Vie des abeilles. Société des Amis du Livre Moderne Paris 1908. Edited under the artistic direction of Charles Meunier and Léon Thévenin, with 70 color woodcuts by Carlos Schwabe, including 2 on the cover, one on the frontispiece and 67 in the text. The artist also illustrated Les Fleurs du mal (1900) and Les Paroles d'un croyant (1908) for Charles Meunier, marking the start of a long collaboration between the two men. Edition of 150 copies on tinted vellum, this one of 125 nominative copies reserved for members. Attractive mosaic binding by Charles Meunier, also a publisher. Full tan morocco in-8, floral and foliate composition mosaic in green morocco and various shades of brown climbing up the edges of the first cover, with a multitude of gilded bees foraging and in flight, spine adorned with two gilded bees and cold fillets highlighting the nerves and running across the boards, interior framing of mosaic chestnut flowers alternating with gilded bees, brocaded silk lining and endpapers in blue and green tones, double endpapers, gilded edges, cover and spine, case (Ch. Meunier 1914).
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