The Morte Darthur By Sir Thomas Malory An Abridgment by Malory, Sir Thomas (abridged By Charles Richard Sanders and Charles E. Ward) - 1940

Appleton-Century-Crofts, January 1940. Trade Paperback. Used - Good. Trade Ppaerback, cover has wear. Pages are in good shape.

University Books, Inc. Good. Hardcover. No Dust-jacket. University Books, New Hyde Park, New York, 1961. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Green cloth boards, reddish brown cloth spine wrap, gilt spine titles on black field, moderate corner, edge wear, discoloration. Pages very good. 432 and 506 pages. Glossary and index. Condition Considered in Pricing. For Additional Information or pictures, Please Inquire.

Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1940. paperback. Good. 8x5x1. used copy, some wear to covers, tanning to pages, no markings, fast shipping

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts (1940) Trade Paperback Edition, 1940 Good reading copy.

Jonathan Cape and the Medici Society (1923). hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. Spine covering is missing, front cover of volume 2 is detached, embossed green boards. 439 and 531 unmarked pages. SAVE ME. Nice ex-libris stamp in each volume.

London: Studio Editions, 1993. Nice copy. quarto. hardback with dust jacket liv + 624pp., illustrations, A facsimile of the J. M. Dent 1909 edition

Macmillan & Co Limited, 1868. Second Edition. Hardback. Very Good. xxxvii, 24pp 468pp Globe edition double column. Neat previous owners name . original green cloth HB. Clean green cloth with gilt globe on the spine. very good

Macmillan and Co. Limited. London. 1907. Reprint of the revised 1891 edition. 8vo. (7.3 x 5.1 inches). Some foxing to the blank endpapers and to a lesser extent on the first and last couple of pages of text, otherwise clean throughout. Fine attractive early twentieth century binding of full dark green morocco, by Zaehnsdorf of London. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments decorated, ruled and lettered in gilt. Triple gilt ruled border on boards. Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales arms stamped in gilt to the front board. Gilt inner dentelles. Dark green endpapers. All edges gilt. Spine faded to a mellow brown but overall a fine attractive binding.

London: Dent. 1893-1894. Limited edition, one of 1,500 ordinary copies, complete in two volumes, quarto, original cream cloth boards with gilt decoration. Complete with all wood-engraved plates (20 plates, including 4 double page) by Aubrey Beardsley with his decorative designs throughout. Limited to 1,800 copies printed. Rubbed to edges, a little darkening to cloth as usual with some markings, previous owner's bookplate front endpaper of both vols with his ink signature front free endpaper vol.I, light foxing to endpapers but otherwise clean, uncut, top-edge gilt. Restored with original spines laid onto new boards with some loss of original to top and bottom edges. Contents clean and unmarked, plates bright. Very good condition. A landmark work in decorative books. The text is that printed by Caxton in 1485, in Southey's edition of 1817, and revised for this edition. Published in parts 1893-1894. Renowned for Beardsley's Art Nouveau illustrations. Limited Ed.. Decorated Cloth.

London: J. M. Dent and Co.,, 1893. A monument of decorative book illustration First Beardsley edition, one of 1,500 copies on ordinary paper, bound from the original twelve monthly instalments published from June 1893 to mid-1894, and with the original wrappers bound in. There were also 300 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper. This was Beardsley's first major commission and the book that launched the "Beardsley look" (Gillon, p. IV). "Aubrey Beardsley's Morte Darthur was one of the most original and certainly one of the most controversial of the nineteenth-century artistic reinterpretations of Malory. Although his illustrations for the Morte established Beardsley as the voice of the 1890s, he was until that time largely an unknown young artist... La Morte Darthur proved to be an immediate sensation upon publication and the impact of Beardsley's Arthurian illustrations was tremendous... Today, Beardsley's illustrations for the Morte, which constituted almost half his lifetime's artistic output,… Read More