Description: Fabre's Book of Insects~Maurice Maeterlinck Illustrated by Edward J Detmold Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d. ca.1921] *First Edition, UK. Thick 4to Hardcover/no dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. Varnished cream linen covers are finished with elaborate gold embossed front cover, art-deco style. Gilt on covers is unusually fine. 1922 gift inscription on ffep, light tanning and foxing, minor bumping to rear cover (see photo), 6 pages (mid-text block) with small tears/scapes to top edges only (see photo); some closed tears to tissue covers (see photos 14-16 for largest), curvature to entire book, 184pp finely illus. with 12 hand-mounted colour plates, tissue-guarded, of insects by E.J. Detmold. A nice copy of this extremely rare edition. [Sub: Retold from Alexander Teixeira De Matto's Translation of Fabre's 'Souvenirs Entomologiques'].
Price: 275 USD
Location: Thornhill, Ontario
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: London
Language: English
Illustrator: Edward J Detmold
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Topic: nature
Subject: Nature
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1921
