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 Dolourous Death and Departing out of this World of them all. The text as writ by ... and imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the year MCCCCLXXXV (1485) and now spelled in modern style, embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley. With an introduction by Professor John Rhys and A Note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance
[London: Dent], 1927. beardsley. Third edition, 1/1600 copies. 4to, pp. lvi, 538. With plates and numerous illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley in text. with 10 extra illustrations not included in the two first printings. 22 full page and double-page illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley including the fine frontispiece, Bound in black cloth stamped in gilt, cloth and paper of the rear hinge splitting, little bumped at the corner, untrimmed, a very good copy. Samuels-Lasner 22c. Item #50086
The third edition contains an extra 10 illustrations added in the text, the first edition to do so, as well as the original binding design (which was never used) and a full size facsimile of the Merlin drawing, previously used on a smaller scale.
Price: $1,200.00