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: 1893-94
Description: 2 volumes. Illustrated throughout by Aubrey Beardsley with plates, vignettes in text, initials, decorations, etc.; 2 frontispieces. 24x18.5 cm (9½x7¼"), original cloth decoratively stamped in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. 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). Beardsley was 20 years old when Dent first commissioned him with this project.

Joints just starting on Vol. I, some staining and wear, corners slightly bumped; a few cracked hinges, a few stains; very good or better.