Emile Verhaeren. Van de Velde. - Les heures du soir. - 1911

VAN DE VELDE. VERHAEREN Emile.
The Evening Hours.
Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1911.
Bound, half-morocco in Havana leather after the original design and under the direction of Henry van de Velde, with a gilded medallion in the center of the front board composed of a series of identical fleurons arranged in an oval surrounding the title, the spine flat with a gilt title and decorated with two identical tools as on the boards. Upper joint damaged, some stains, endpapers foxed, otherwise a fine copy.
26.5 x 19.5 cm, 36-[4] pp.
Original edition.
New edition prepared from the original maquette drawn by Henry van de Velde (binding and layout), one of 500 numbered copies on an unspecified heavy paper (vergé), after 50 Japan (the latter bound in full morocco, with case, signed).