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1912 The Blue Bird : A Fairy Play : Maurice Maeterlinck Colour Illus by Robinson

Name: 1912 The Blue Bird : A Fairy Play : Maurice Maeterlinck Colour Illus by Robinson
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The Blue Bird : A Fairy Play in Six Acts

By Maurice Maeterlinck

Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Marros

With Twenty-Five illustrations in colour by F. Cayley Robinson

Published by Methuen & Co, London, 1911. First Illustrated (Crown 4to) Edition, Hardback book with beautifully decorated boards and spine in gilt. Gilt to top edge. Illustrated endpapers. pp xvi, 211, [i]. With 25 tipped-in colour plates all protected with tissue guards.

CONDITION
A very good copy. The decorative binding is in very good clean condition with no tears, dents etc. Binding good and square. Endpapers very good and with no names or writing to the book. All contents present and pages clean throughout and free from foxing and other marks. Overall a very good copy.

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. He was a leading member of La Jeune Belgique group and his plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. In later life, Maeterlinck faced credible accusations of plagiarism.

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