 He worked at Brussels as well as Paris, and his best known work – consisting among other things of an illustrated edition of Paul Verlaine's poems – was published in small, secretive editions by publisher Charles Carrington.The prints are considered both humoristic and satirical, sometimes cynical.Van Maële's career is said to have really begun with his illustrations for H. G. Wells in "Les Premiers Hommes dans la Lune" (or "The First Men in the Moon"), published by in 1901.