Maurice Maeterlinck — Le Tresor Des Humbles

Paris, Mercure de France, 1915 . Leather. A smart copy of Maeterlinck's celebrated collection of mystical and Symbolist essays, published just four years after his Nobel Prize. In a contemporary quarter morocco binding with marbled paper boards.  Eighty-fourth edition.  First published by the Mercure de France in 1896, Le Tresor des Humbles rapidly became one of Maeterlinck's best-known prose works.  A collection of thirteen philosophical and mystical essays. Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) was a Belgian Symbolist poet, dramatist and essayist whose early writing was particularly characterised by mysticism. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, four years before the present edition. The contents comprise: Le Silence (Silence); Le Reveil de l"ame (The Awakening of the Soul); Les Avertis (The Pre-Destined); La Morale mystique (Mystic Morality); Sur les Femmes (On Women); Ruysbroeck l"Admirable (Ruysbroeck the Admirable); Emerson; Novalis; Le Tragique quotidien (The Tragical in Daily Life); L"Etoile (The Star); La Bonte invisible (The Invisible Goodness); La Vie profonde (The Deeper Life); and La Beaute interieure (The Inner Beauty). In a contemporary quarter morocco binding with marbled paper boards. Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, resulting in minor loss to morocco and paper. Rubbing to boards resulting in slight surface loss to paper, with small portion of loss to paper at fore edge of rear board. Slight fading to spine. Ownership inscription from one Elizabeth Haggard to the head of first blank. Creasing to lower corner of final blanks. The odd spot to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if age toned, more so to fore edge, with one or two spots. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .