Le Morte D'Arthur. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of His Noble Knights of the Round Table ... the San Greal and in the end Le Morte Darthur ... by Sir Thomas Malory & Printed by William Caxton at Westminster [library of Herbert Tudor Buckland ?] by Malory, Sir Thomas - 1893-1894

London: Dent. 1893-1894. 1st ed thus., limited edition, complete in two volumes, quarto, original cream cloth boards with gilt decoration. Complete with all plates (20 plates, including 4 double page) by Aubrey Beardsley with his decorative designs throughout. Limited to 1,800 copies printed. Rubbed to edges, a little darkening to cloth as usual, split along upper spine of vol I and faint red line on front board, previous owner's bookplate front endpaper of both vols (anthropologist D'Arcy Ryan) with his ink signature front free endpaper vol.I, with an earlier pencil signature upper front paste-down vol.II 'H.T. Buckland, Nov. 1895' (likely the British architect Herbert Tudor Buckland), light foxing to endpapers but otherwise clean, uncut, top-edge gilt, very good condn. A landmark work in decorative books. The text is that printed by Caxton in 1485, in Southey's edition of 1817, and revised for this edition. Published in parts 1893-1894. Renowned for Beardsley's Art Nouveau illustrations 1st edition thus. Cloth Boards.