Le Morte D'arthur
Thomas Malory, Aubrey Beardsley
Hardcover
(Studio Editions, Jan. 1, 1990)
Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Facsimile Edition of Dents 1909 Edition, Reprinted 1993. Very Thick Royal Folio. 624pp. Illustrated title-page, half-title, frontispiece, 19 full-page plate illustrations, wonderful and profuse decorations including in-text vignettes and chapter head and tail-pieces, all by the incomparable Aubrey Beardsley, leading figure in the aesthetic and Art Nouveau movements. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind. Beautifully bound in bright gilt lettered and illustrated black cloth boards, very slightly bowed to upper and featuring elaborate Beardsley scrolled flowers to both boards and spine. Housed and protected in very good original like illustrated gilt and black dustwrapper. Fit to grace the library of reader, scholar or collector alike. Very heavy volume, will accrue additional postage, particularly outside Europe, please inquire.