1912 Rare Illustrated Edition bound by Sangorski - The INNER BEAUTY - Spiritual essays by Maurice Maeterlinck.
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Author: Maurice MAETERLINCK. (Alfred Sutro, translator).
Title: The Inner Beauty (Silence & The Invisible Goodness).
Language: Text in English.
Publisher: London, Arthur R. Humphreys, 1912.
Size : 6 "X 4.5 ".
Pages: vii-71 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good full morocco leather binding, decorated in gilt on spine and covers, signed by Sangosrski & Sutcliffe (hinges scuffed and darkened but still tight) under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean - as shown, gift note of a previous owner on the first blank). Upper edge gilt.
Illustrations: Complete with the nice sepia pastedown illustrations.
The book: A beautifully illustrated edition of The Inner Beauty by Maurice Maeterlinck bound by Sangosrski & Sutcliffe.
The author: Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck[a] (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.