Morte Darthur by MALORY, Sir Thomas - 1889

Limited Edition with Commentary and Critical Text MALORY, Sir Thomas. [LANG, Andrew, contributor]. [SOMMER, H. Oskar, editor]. Le Morte Darthur...The Original Edition of William Caxton Now Reprinted and Edited with an Introduction and Glossary. With an Essay on Malory's Prose Style by Andrew Lang. London: Published by David Nutt, 1889-1891. Sommer's edition of Le Morte D'Arthur. Limited to 108 copies signed by the publisher. Three volumes bound in four. Quarto. With folding facsimile in Volume III. Contemporary three quarter red morocco over marbled boards. Spines lettered in gilt, five raised bands, marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Original paper spine bound in at the end of Volume I. Former owner's pencilled signature on front flyleaf. Bookplates. Apart from some intermittent minor marginal foxing, this is a fine copy in a lovely binding. This fine reproduction of Caxton's Le Morte DArthur is printed in Roman type and contains Sommer's Studies on the Sources (Volume III), which gives a wonderful detailed history of both King Arthur and Merlin. BMC I, p. 1020, col. 581. Green, Andrew Lang, p. 244. HBS 66943. $1,750