MORTE D'ARTHUR BY ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 1912 ILLUMINATED BY ALBERTO SANGORSKI

[TENNYSON, ALFRED LORD]. Morte d'Arthur: A Poem. London: Chatto & Windus, 1912.

FIRST EDITION THUS. Leather-bound; hardcover; quarto (26.5 x 20.5 x 1.5 cm); pp. 25. English text. Bound in publisher's original parchment covers beautifully lettered and decorated in gilt; with silk-ribbon ties; t.e.g.; illuminated title page and 22 pages of Tennyson's poem, with calligraphic text and illumination by Alberto Sangorski, plus colophon printed in red. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Covers well-preserved with some very faint mottling. Interior largely fresh and clean, the endpapers showing light spotting. Without previous ownership markings. A most handsome copy.

Notes: A charming presentation of Tennyson's Arthurian poem, the medieval-style illuminations remaining beautifully bright and gleaming, presented in the superior parchment binding.