LE MORTE D'ARTHUR: Deluxe Leather Edition
SIR THOMAS MALORY Book Number: 81730 Product format: Hardback
In dark blue leather binding with gold tooling, a tipped-in colour illustration of an image from the story, the text for this edition is based on that of the modernised edition of William Caxton's text of 1485, published in 1909 by J. M. Dent. The editors have standardised variant spellings of words and some misnumbering of chapters to those of the edition prepared by A. W. Pollard in 1900. The cover art is by Howard Pyle and Aubrey Beardsley in this Barnes & Noble family library exquisite edition. It has 850 pages, beautiful typeface, particularly in the headers, capitals, woodcut illustrations and dozens of plates by Arthur Rackham et al. Begins with The First Book of King Arthur and how Uther Pendragon sent for the Duke of Cornwall and how by means of Merlin he lay by the Duchess and gat Arthur. All 21 books are included, 24 full page illustrations plus decorations, 850 pages in heavyweight beautiful leather-bound tome with gilded page edges and satin bookmarker. Brand new.
Bibliophile price: £25.00
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