Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos.
London, George Allen, 1912
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).
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.
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.
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