Le Morte Darthur. By Syr Thomas Malory. The Original Edition of William Caxton
by Malory, Sir Thomas. (H. Oskar Sommer, Editor; Andrew Lang, contributor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
London: David Nutt, 1889. Hardcover. Very good. First critical edition. 4to. Three volumes in two, uniformly bound. xviii, 861,(3); 230, 2); 338(2)pp. Publisher's quarter leather, gilt spine titles, top edges gilt. Cloth boards. Volume One contains the facsimile of Caxton's edition; Volume Two contains Sommer's notes, glossary and bibliography of the Morte d'Arthur; and Volume Three contains Andrew Lang's introductory essay as well as Sommer's notes on the Arthurian sources. Facsimile of Caxton's page 75 in Volume One. Three folding charts present in Volume Three. And with Sommer's Editor's Note laid into Volume 1.
Spine tips nicely mended, some age crackling to the leather spines but overall a very good set.
Gaines A12.
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- Bookseller
- Thorn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20899
- Title
- Le Morte Darthur. By Syr Thomas Malory. The Original Edition of William Caxton
- Author
- Malory, Sir Thomas. (H. Oskar Sommer, Editor; Andrew Lang, contributor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- David Nutt
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arthurian;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Thorn Books
All books returnable for any reason within seven days, providing only that they are received in the same condition as shipped. Shipments to an Arizona address must add appropriate sales tax. Libraries billed.
About the Seller
Thorn Books
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Tucson, Arizona
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Gilt
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- Spine
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- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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