THE BURIED TEMPLE

Second edition following the first in 1902. 8vo (8 x 5 ins) pp [viii], 276, [1] Portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard. Original green cloth boards with a striking angular design or what appears to be a heart being zapped into space through a pair of ornate pillars. Front and backstrip with gilt lettering, also gilt owl to front. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Pencilled bibliographical notes to the first free endpaper. Light spotting to front pastedown. No old inscriptions. Light rubbing to head of the spine and rear edge at joint. A fine copy. Contains five essays by the Belgian poet and essayist, including The Mystery of Justice and The Evolution of Mystery. Maurice Maeterlinck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911.