[VAN MAELE (Martin)]. The Great Dance of the Living . 1st [2nd, 3rd, 4th and last] Tenth. [Paris: Charles Carrington, 1905]. - Album in-4, 292 x 220. Red half-bradel with wedges, gilt filets, spine ribbed , untrimmed (contemporary binding). Pia, p. 319 .complete collection of 44 free etchings by painter and illustrator Martin Van Maele (1863-1926). The publication consists of 4 issues consisting of an illustrated bistre cover and 10 black engravings, most of which include a caption at the point. Print run indicated at 100 copies on laid paper in MBM form. According to L. Sokolow, quoted by Pia, the print run would not have reached 100 copies "because this book is almost impossible to find anywhere in the world. " Beautiful copy, unnumbered, all the plates of which have been mounted on tabs; it is enriched with a sheet copy of the complete series of the fourth and last tenain. A few rubs of use on the back. Scattered freckles on the headlines. Title of additional series burnished. Provenance : mention " Bibl. F... " gilded on the lower back.