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662 - MAETERLINCK, Maurice Twelve Songs [...]. Illustrations by Charles Doudelet. Brussels: Édition aryenne (printed by J.-E. Goossens) 1929. Large in-f° (a few pinholes and faint foxing on the first and last leaves). Black embossed percaline with border; cover plates featuring illustrations from the original edition inlaid on the covers; plain, unmarked spine; white laid paper endpapers (with foxing on the cover paper). In a navy blue cloth slipcase (faded, a few small tears). A beautiful reprint of this quintessential work of Belgian Symbolism (original and first edition from 1896), containing 13 new woodcut compositions: the cover illustration, printed in gold, and the 12 end-piece illustrations. Printed in a run of 110 numbered copies, including 10 honorary copies; one of the 75 on Arches paper (no. 67). Ref. S. Leten, *Charles Doudelet, Illustrator*, p. 64. Provenance: Author’s dedication on the half-title page, signed “Paul, April 4, 1944”: “May these pages inspire the dreams of an eighteen-year-old soul!”
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MAETERLINCK, Maurice Twelve Songs [...]. Illustrations by Charles Doudelet. Brussels: Édition aryenne (printed by J.-E. Goossens) 1929. Large in-f° (a few pinholes and faint foxing on the first and last leaves). Black embossed percaline with border; cover plates featuring illustrations from the original edition inlaid on the covers; plain, unmarked spine; white laid paper endpapers (with foxing on the cover paper). In a navy blue cloth slipcase (faded, a few small tears). A beautiful reprint of this quintessential work of Belgian Symbolism (original and first edition from 1896), containing 13 new woodcut compositions: the cover illustration, printed in gold, and the 12 end-piece illustrations. Printed in a run of 110 numbered copies, including 10 honorary copies; one of the 75 on Arches paper (no. 67). Ref. S. Leten, *Charles Doudelet, Illustrator*, p. 64. Provenance: Author’s dedication on the half-title page, signed “Paul, April 4, 1944”: “May these pages inspire the dreams of an eighteen-year-old soul!”
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