DETMOLD, E. J. (illus.); MAETERLINCK, Maurice.

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Hours of Gladness. First edition, pairing Detmold's botanical illustrations with Maeterlinck's nature essays."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" (Larkin, p. 10).

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