Accession number
PML 77746
Creator
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949.
Published
Paris : Léon Vanier, éditeur, 1889.
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1983.
Notes
With an added leaf of fair copy manuscript, inscribed in ink and signed Maeterlinck, bound in at front, containing the poem "Oraison."
"Frontispice et culs de lampe par George Minne."
One of several issues of 1st ed. Cf. Hermans, G. Les premières armes de Maurice Maeterlinck, p. 31-35.
"Tirage à 155 exemplaires sur papier Van Gelder."
Library has copy no. 34.
Colophon reads: Achevé d'imprimer le trente et un Mai, mil huit cent quatre-vingt - neuf, par Louis Van Melle, Imprimeur à Gand, pour Léon Vanier, Editeur à Paris.
"Frontispice et culs de lampe par George Minne."
One of several issues of 1st ed. Cf. Hermans, G. Les premières armes de Maurice Maeterlinck, p. 31-35.
"Tirage à 155 exemplaires sur papier Van Gelder."
Library has copy no. 34.
Colophon reads: Achevé d'imprimer le trente et un Mai, mil huit cent quatre-vingt - neuf, par Louis Van Melle, Imprimeur à Gand, pour Léon Vanier, Editeur à Paris.
Description
97, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Provenance
Maeterlinck's copy, kept at his château Orlamonde; by descent to Louis Van Goitsenhoven-Maeterlinck, the adopted son of Maeterlinck's widow Renée Dahon.
Binding
Vellum wrappers, lettered in red and decorated in black with a vignette by George Minne; bound into modern citron morocco, with color onlays evoking the vegetal forms on Minne's frontispiece, lettered in gold on spine and stamp-signed by [Mrs.?] F. P. Coupé on front turn-in.
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