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Westminster: William Caxton, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. . This edition with Beardsley illustrations, limited edition of 1,600 copies. This copy specially bound in half-morocco with raised bands and gilt decoration on the spine, printed boards, top edges gilt, matching printed endpapers. Cover shows minor rubbing to the extremities, some minor stains on the top edges. Pages are lightly tanned and clean, profusely illustrated. Original navy cloth cover and spine with gilt decorations bound in at the rear.

[London]:: Dent, , 1893.. First edition; one of 1,500 copies. . publisher’s white gilt-decorated cloth, t.e.g. . Attractive old bookplate on the pastedown of Vol. I. Spines and cloth sides very slightly tanned; small black stain near the center of the spine of Volume I; contents clean and attractive. . 4to,. Embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley.. With an Introduction by Professor Rhys.

Westminster: J. M. Dent,, 1893-94. One of 300 deluxe copies on Dutch handmade paper First Beardsley edition, an out of series unnumbered copy of one of 300 deluxe copies on Dutch handmade paper, from a total edition of 1,800. The book was issued in 12 parts in wrappers, with the purchaser given the choice of sending it back to the publisher, who bound them in vellum or cloth, or to a binder of their own. In 1892, seeking to emulate the books of the Kelmscott Press, John M. Dent commissioned the 20-year-old Beardsley to produce this edition, work that took the young artist 18 months to complete. "In Le Morte d'Arthur Beardsley learnt his job, but the result is no bungling student's work... If he had never illustrated another book, this edition of Morte d'Arthur could stand as a monument of decorative book illustration" (Lewis, pp. 148-9). The work was first published in 12 monthly magazine instalments between June 1893, and mid-1894. "Aubrey Beardsley's Morte Darthur was one of the most original and… Read More

London: Dent,, 1893. Vellucent binding by Cedric Chivers First Beardsley edition, one of 1,500 copies on ordinary paper; another 300 were printed on Dutch handmade paper. This copy in a bright and spectacular example of a "vellucent" binding, by Cedric Chivers of Bath, unsigned but a characteristic example of this style. Chivers invented a way to treat vellum so that it became translucent ("vellucent"): the cover design would be painted on a separate sheet and then a thin sheet of this translucent vellum would be laid over it; gilt tooling would then be applied over the top of this. In his catalogue of Books in Beautiful Bindings (c. 1905), Chivers describes the Beardsley Morte D'Arthur as "bound in whole vellucent from a design by the illustrator of the book. A figure panel enclosed in a floral border". The hand-painted cover illustrations for this set reproduce two of Beardsley's designs, volume one depicting "How Four Queens Found Launcelot Sleeping" (p. 184) and volume two "The Achieving of the… Read More