1912 The Life of the Bee

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

First published in 1901, this work was re-set with Detmold's illustrations in 1911. This is the June 1912 second impression of the Detmold illustration of this work.

Illustrated with thirteen mounted colour plates by prolific illustrator Edward Julius Detmold.

Collated, complete.

The work of Nobel Prize winning Belgian playwright, poet and essayist Maurice Maeterlinck.

In this work, Maeterlinck examines the world of bees, their society, and their activities, drawing philosophical parallels between the lives and actions of bees and of human beings. Maeterlinck claims that 'no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved'.