Arthurian Exhibit: Four ephemera items from the Arthurian Exhibition of 1985: Library Bulletin, Exhibition Booklet, Invitation and Keepsake printed with the Ashendene Press woodblock
by (Monell, Charles)
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About This Item
In 1985, Dr., Monell hosted a traveling exhibit of books relating to the 500th anniversary of the publishing of Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Her are four items form that exhibit:
1. California State Library Foundation Bulletin, No, 12, which contains the illustrated text of Dr. Monell's speech in first edition.
2. Single page invitation to the opening of the Exhibit at the California State Library, Sacramento.
3. Finely printed broadside, 8½ by 11 inches. Printed letterpress by Saul Marks on his Albion Press for Dr. Monell's Special Exhibition of Arthuriana. Noteworthy for the use of Dr. Monell's original wood block cut by W. H. Hooper for the Ashendene Press edition of Malory in 1913.
4. Five Hundred Years of King Arthur, the Exhibition catalogue 20pp, illustrated, stapled wraps, one of 1000 copies of the first standalone edition (preceded by the Library Bulletin, above).
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- Thorn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20978
- Title
- Arthurian Exhibit: Four ephemera items from the Arthurian Exhibition of 1985: Library Bulletin, Exhibition Booklet, Invitation and Keepsake printed with the Ashendene Press woodblock
- Author
- (Monell, Charles)
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- Used - Fine
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- 1
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- Paperback
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- Date Published
- 1985
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