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Le Morte D'Arthur. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table. With many original Designs by Aubrey Beardsley. [With Anthony Edwards' Essay 'Thomas Malory, the Morte Darthur and Aubrey Beardsley' in separate booklet.]. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
by MALORY Sir Thomas
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Folio Society,, 2003. 2 vols., roy. 8vo. and 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; elegantly bound in full brown goatskin, upper board framed and blocked in gilt, gilt back, bevelled boards, gilt edges, hand-made textured endpapers, ribbon marker, separate Essay booklet (sewed as issued) in inside pocket, the whole contained in publisher's board solander case blocked in gilt, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 461).
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- Island Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44150
- Title
- Le Morte D'Arthur. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table. With many original Designs by Aubrey Beardsley. [With Anthony Edwards' Essay 'Thomas Malory, the Morte Darthur and Aubrey Beardsley' in separate booklet.]. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
- Author
- MALORY Sir Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Folio Society,
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- folio society, malory, thomas malory, beardsley, aubrey beardsley, morte darthur, morte d'arthur
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