MORTE D'ARTHUR PORTFOLIO; Reproductions of eleven designs omitted from the first edition of Le Morte D'arthur, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley and published in MDCCCXCIII, also those made for the covers of the issue in parts and a facsimile print of the Merlin drawing.
London: Dent, 1927. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, illus. One of 300 numbered copies. 4to, pp. 16 plus plates. A note on the omitted designs by Rainforth Armitage Walker, with a foreword by Aymer Vallance. Leather backed vellum, with decorative design and lettering in gilt. TEG. One hinge partly tender, a little offsetting from the plates. Little soil on cover and endpapers, some flaking of the gilt of front design. VG, very scarce. Gallatin 631-641; Samuels-Lasner 22D. Item #38926
With numerous decorative woodcut initials, historiated head- and tailpieces, and 14 illustrations (1 half-tone reproduction of original cover of Le Morte d'Arthur), issued in conjunction with the third edition Le morte d'Arthur (1927), and includes several designs omitted from both the first and second editions.
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