Author

DETMOLD, Edward Julius, Illustrator; Maurice Maeterlinck.

Title

Hours of Gladness.
Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos.

Published, Date

George Allen, London1912

Description

First Detmold edition. 4to. (28,5 x 23cm), 181pp., decorated title-page, 20 tipped-in colour plates of birds, bees, toads, flowers and fruit, uncut and partly unopened, original decorated cream cloth gilt, very slight bubbling, original grey dust-wrapper (a tear along back cover), a fine bright copy.

Note

Detmold's (1883-1957), work displays an extraordinary understanding of animals and plants. "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" (David Larkin, The Fantastic Creatures of Edward Julius Detmold).

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Stock Number

33508