MALORY, Thomas & Aubrey BEARDSLEY (illustrator). 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, London: Dent, 1893-94, 3 volumes, 4°, first edition in book form, limited to 1,800 copies, this one of 300 of the "superior issue" on Dutch hand-made paper, printed in red and black, 2 photogravure frontispieces, 18 plates, 5 double-page, illustrations, decorations and initials by Beardsley (occasional offsetting, marginal staining and light spotting), contemporary half vellum by John Bumpus, spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g. (3)
MALORY, Thomas & Aubrey BEARDSLEY (illustrator). 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, London: Dent, 1893-94, 3 volumes, 4°, first edition in book form, limited to 1,800 copies, this one of 300 of the "superior issue" on Dutch hand-made paper, printed in red and black, 2 photogravure frontispieces, 18 plates, 5 double-page, illustrations, decorations and initials by Beardsley (occasional offsetting, marginal staining and light spotting), contemporary half vellum by John Bumpus, spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g. (3)
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