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Beardsley illustrates King Arthur, 1/1500 copies
Beardsley illustrates King Arthur, 1/1500 copies
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Heading: (Beardsley, Aubrey, illustrator)
Author: Malory, Thomas
Title: 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 the World of them All.
Place Published: [London]
Publisher:[J.M. Dent & Co.]
Date Published: [1893-1894]
Description:


2 volumes. Illustrated throughout by Aubrey Beardsley with frontispieces, plates, vignettes in text, initials, decorations, etc. 24x18.5 cm (9½x7¼"), original cloth decoratively gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, custom cloth slipcases. One of 1500 copies. First Edition.



One of 1500 copies of the regular issue, from a total edition of 1800. Aubrey Beardsley's first important work, containing over 300 of his designs. "In Le Morte DArthur Beardsley learnt his job, but the result is no bungling student's work... If he had never illustrated another book, this edition of Morte DArthur could stand as a monument of decorative book illustration" (in The Twentieth Century Book, pp. 148-149). Ex-libris stickers on front paste downs, previous owner's signatures on front free endpapers.

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Slipcases stained and worn; volume spines lightly sunned, with foxing and soiling to cloth; rear hinge of vol. II cracking, bindings otherwise solid; very good.
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