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663 - MAETERLINCK, Maurice *The Life of Bees*. Illustrations by Adolphe Giraldon, engraved in color by Ernest Florian. Paris: A. & F. Ferroud (1918) In-8°. Lemon-colored Cape morocco in Art Deco style, signed Ch. De Samblanx, with double gilded fillet framing the covers and a central medallion decorated with stylized motifs in mos. of green and red leather depicting leaves and fruit, and a repeated gilded bee; spine with gilded, coffered raised bands and mos. featuring a repeated bee; double gilded fillet on the edges; gilded inner dentation; gilded edges; illustrated cover intact (spine slightly faded). In slipcase. A fine copy, interior very fresh. An edition very beautifully illustrated with color-engraved woodcuts, including 1 frontispiece, 7 half-titles, 7 chapter announcements, headpieces, and tailpieces; an ornate khaki-colored border encircling the pages. Printed in a run of 1,212 numbered copies; one of 55 on Imperial Japan paper (2nd paper, no. 88, initialed in pencil by Ferroud) containing two states of the woodcuts, including one in black prior to printing and with a note. Begun in 1914, this edition was interrupted by Giraldon’s death and the war, and was not published until 1918.
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MAETERLINCK, Maurice *The Life of Bees*. Illustrations by Adolphe Giraldon, engraved in color by Ernest Florian. Paris: A. & F. Ferroud (1918) In-8°. Lemon-colored Cape morocco in Art Deco style, signed Ch. De Samblanx, with double gilded fillet framing the covers and a central medallion decorated with stylized motifs in mos. of green and red leather depicting leaves and fruit, and a repeated gilded bee; spine with gilded, coffered raised bands and mos. featuring a repeated bee; double gilded fillet on the edges; gilded inner dentation; gilded edges; illustrated cover intact (spine slightly faded). In slipcase. A fine copy, interior very fresh. An edition very beautifully illustrated with color-engraved woodcuts, including 1 frontispiece, 7 half-titles, 7 chapter announcements, headpieces, and tailpieces; an ornate khaki-colored border encircling the pages. Printed in a run of 1,212 numbered copies; one of 55 on Imperial Japan paper (2nd paper, no. 88, initialed in pencil by Ferroud) containing two states of the woodcuts, including one in black prior to printing and with a note. Begun in 1914, this edition was interrupted by Giraldon’s death and the war, and was not published until 1918.
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