LA MORT D'ARTHUR BY SIR THOMAS MALORY 1927 AUBREY BEARDSLEY ILLUSTRATIONS THIRD EDITION

LA MORT D'ARTHUR BY SIR THOMAS MALORY 1927 AUBREY BEARDSLEY ILLUSTRATIONS THIRD EDITION

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[MALORY, SIR THOMAS]. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur Of His Noble Knights of the Round Table Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures The Achieving of the San Greal and in the end Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing out of this World of Them All. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1927.

Third edition thus. One of sixteen-hundred copies. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Large quarto (300 x 220 x 55 mm.). Pp. lv, 538. Bound in publisher's original decorative black cloth, the spine and boards intricately gilt with the iconic Beardsley water-lily illustrations. Bevelled board edges. Top page edges gilt, other edges rough cut. Plain endpaper. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. Frontispiece with tissue-guard. Title-page with decorative head-piece and publisher's device. With 365 designs by Beardsley, including twenty-two plates (six of which are double-page), decorative borders, initials, and chapter headings (the chapter heading on p. 368 previously unpublished). General glossary to rear in double columns. Colophon: Printed by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh. Dent colophon on title-page with Dutton shown as publisher on copyright page and spine. With an introduction by Professor John Rhys. And a note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight, secure and square. Covers generally well-preserved, although there is some rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and points. Interior complete with some foxing to the endpapers and frontis. Ex-libris plate to front pastedown.

Notes: This is the third and most complete edition of Beardsley's Le Morte Darthur, and includes eleven designs and ornaments that had been omitted from the previous editions.