[LE MORTE DARTHUR] THE BIRTH LIFE AND ACTS OF KING ARTHUR OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE THEIR MARVELLOUS ENQUESTS AND ADVENTURES THE ACHIEVING OF THE SAN GREAL AND IN THE END LE MORTE DARTHUR WITH THE DOLOUROUS DEATH AND DEPARTING OUT OF THIS WORLD OF THEM ALL by Aubrey Beardsley (Illustrator) | Thomas Malory - 1909

Easton Press, 2000. First Thus. Leather Binding. Fine. A fine copy of this beautiful printing of Beardsley's classic illustrated version. Full black leather decorated in gilt, spine with raied bands, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers. Collector's Notes and unused Easton bookplate laid in loose.

London; J. M. Dent, 1909., 1909. Hard Cover. SECOND EDITION, complete in single volume, and LIMITED to 1000 copies only for the United Kingdom and 500 for America. Large octavo, pp. liv, 624. 20 plates including frontispiece,of which 5 double page, plus numerous illustrations throughout the text including chapter headings and decorative borders, by Aubrey Beardsley. Publishers' olive green cloth with gilt titles to spine, blocked in gilt with elaborate stylised lily design, also by Beardsley, to spine and upper board; top edge gilt. A slightly shaken copy with bruised upper corners and light wear to spine tips; paper cracked at inner rear hinge. Light foxing, largely to paste-down endpapers, otherwise contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Very Good overall. Beardsley's lavishly produced masterpiece and his first major commission, originally issued in twelve parts but here complete in a single volume with his decoration to every page. Beardsley (1872-98) was arguably the most… Read More

New York: J. M. Dent, 1927. Third edition. Cloth. Very Good. 4to (31 cm); lv, 538 p., [22] leaves of plates, including one half-tone, two engravings, and 19 cuts (five of them double-page). Many illustrations and ornaments in text. Original black cloth with Beardsley's floral design in gilt. Top edge gilt. Rebacked, with original spine laid down. Text extremely good, unstained, with pages toned at edges. No dust jacket. Illustrated with 20 full page plates, including 2 from etchings and 18 from woodcuts (five are double-page) by Aubrey Beardsley with tissue-guards, plus approx. 280 woodcut chapter headers, initials, borders and ornaments throughout the text. Introduction by John Rhys. Note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. Note on the designs omitted from the first edition by R. A. Walker. Caxton's Preface from the 1485 edition. Glossary. Edition limited to 1600 copies.