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(BEARDSLEY, Aubrey) MALORY, Sir Thomas,
Le Morte D'Arthur.
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 D'Arthur with the Delourous Death and Departing out of this World of All of Them.
Third edition limited to 1,600 copies. This third edition is the first complete edition to have been published.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full green morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, rules and decorative corner pieces to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Photogravure frontispiece, 4 double page and 17 full page illustrations, 43 ornamental borders, 300 ornamental initials, headpieces, other decorations in the text, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. A fine copy.
