Maurice MAETERLINCK
LIFE OF TERMITES decorated with engravings by Georges Gorvel.
Jean Variot bibliophile edition princeps illustrated in Versailles, SD (1927).
1 volume large 8vo (25.5 x 20 cm) (4) -141 pages.
full morocco binding chocolate back with four fried nerves, author, title and vintage golden, liners and guards of marbled paper, broad framework within morocco decorated with gold dots oval repeated in a linear manner imitating the path of termites so allusive roulette gold at the ends of cuts, gilded on witnesses, blankets pinout kept in new condition, case lined in perfect condition (contemporary binding signed Septier ). Perfectly preserved copy.
FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED.
BIBLIOPHILE PRINT EDITION OF A VERY SMALL NUMBER (159 ex. In total).
SAME ONE OF 15 COPIES OF RARE HEAD ON PAPER SHADE IN FORM OF JAPAN (No. 7), WITH A SERIES OF 12 PRINTS ON COPPER ON VELLUM WHITE ARCHES . The portrait of the author is in 3 states (Japan, China and white wove Arches).
The original edition of the Life of termites in Fasquelle appeared in 1926 with the format in-12, no illustrations. This trial is continuing its study of Maeterlinck philosophical insects started with Life of Bees, published in 1901 and continued with the Lives of Ants, published in 1930. The original artwork here that gives Georges Gorvel "modest writer and so much talent" (The Bibliophile, vol. 1, p. 187) shows here hallucinatory visions and totally imbued with the Art Deco surroundings.
Provenance: Ex libris H. Grandjean.
ON JOINT : a card autograph letter signed by M. Maeterlinck AP Garnier, editor, about the return of a manuscript of the author (March 26, 1919).
SUPERB FULLY PREPARED BY Septier COPY OF THIS BOOK RARE SHOWN.
Price: 1.750 euros
LIFE OF TERMITES decorated with engravings by Georges Gorvel.
Jean Variot bibliophile edition princeps illustrated in Versailles, SD (1927).
1 volume large 8vo (25.5 x 20 cm) (4) -141 pages.
full morocco binding chocolate back with four fried nerves, author, title and vintage golden, liners and guards of marbled paper, broad framework within morocco decorated with gold dots oval repeated in a linear manner imitating the path of termites so allusive roulette gold at the ends of cuts, gilded on witnesses, blankets pinout kept in new condition, case lined in perfect condition (contemporary binding signed Septier ). Perfectly preserved copy.
FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED.
BIBLIOPHILE PRINT EDITION OF A VERY SMALL NUMBER (159 ex. In total).
SAME ONE OF 15 COPIES OF RARE HEAD ON PAPER SHADE IN FORM OF JAPAN (No. 7), WITH A SERIES OF 12 PRINTS ON COPPER ON VELLUM WHITE ARCHES . The portrait of the author is in 3 states (Japan, China and white wove Arches).
The original edition of the Life of termites in Fasquelle appeared in 1926 with the format in-12, no illustrations. This trial is continuing its study of Maeterlinck philosophical insects started with Life of Bees, published in 1901 and continued with the Lives of Ants, published in 1930. The original artwork here that gives Georges Gorvel "modest writer and so much talent" (The Bibliophile, vol. 1, p. 187) shows here hallucinatory visions and totally imbued with the Art Deco surroundings.
Provenance: Ex libris H. Grandjean.
ON JOINT : a card autograph letter signed by M. Maeterlinck AP Garnier, editor, about the return of a manuscript of the author (March 26, 1919).
SUPERB FULLY PREPARED BY Septier COPY OF THIS BOOK RARE SHOWN.
Price: 1.750 euros
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