[MALORY, SIR THOMAS]. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the knights of the Round Table. Compiled by Sir Thomas Malory, knt. Edited from the Text of the Edition of 1634, with Introduction and Notes, by Thomas Wright. London, John Russell Smith, 1866.
Second edition thus. Complete in two volumes. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Duodecimo (170 x 110 mm.), pp. xliv, 305; xvi, 360; xvi, 354. English text. Bound in contemporary full calf; spines with five raised bands, gilt centre tools and titles, plus morocco title-plates; covers, edges and turn-ins blind ruled and tooled. All page edges dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Half-titles present. Publishers device to title-pages. Volume I with a facsimile of the 1634 title-page. Decorative initials. Head- and tail-pieces. Footnotes. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Edited by Thomas Wright. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. The bindings are tight and secure with the hinges intact, some light rubbing present to extremities. The textblock is remarkably clean and mostly near immaculate. Previous ownership signature neatly inked to front endpapers. Scarce.
