Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory Kt by Malory, Thomas - 1911

London: Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society, 1911. First edition. Near fine. Illustrated by W.Russell Flint.. 4 volumes. 4to. The Text of William Caxton in modernized spelling. 46 colored plates by William Russell Flint. Tissue guards printed in red. Full limp vellum; gilt titles; top edges gilt. Green silk ties; white ribbon markers. Printed on Riccardi handmade paper. One of 500 numbered copies, this being number 156. In the scarce green dustwrappers printed in black. The dustwrappers have some minor sunning, some neat repairs to the folds from within. The dustwrapper to volume 2 has a small chip at the tip of the spine and the wrapper to volume 4 lacks a small piece in the same place (neatly restored). Overall the dustwrappers are in very good condition. Volumes 2, 3 and 4 have an small residue where a bookplate has been removed or fallen off, but the plate of the former owner is still present in Volume 1: author Mark Holstein. Printed in black and green on fine paper, it depicts the authors… Read More