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JOAN HASSALL. Sir Thomas Mallory.. Lancelot and Elaine. Being the Eighth to the Twentieth Chapters of the Eighteenth Book of Sir Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte Darthur'. With engravings by Joan Hassall.. Printed by Rene Hague and Eric Gill, Pigotts, near High Wycombe,, 1948.

Price: US$325.04 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The first edition with these illustrations. Small 8vo. 68pp. Red leather with gilt lettering and a blind-stamped border to the upper board. With a title page decoration, printed in red, a half-title vignette and two full-page engravings (other copies appear to include a total of five engravings, but this one only includes four, although the two full-page plates are present, as required). The text printed in red and black, and following exactly that printed by William Caxton in 1845, with the misprints not corrected. A touch of wear to the extremities of the leather. Former owner name and date neatly inked in red to the front free endpaper. Very good indeed. Laid-in is an Eric Gill-designed bookplate, created in 1915 for Joseph Thorp's Decoy Press. The colophon states that 200 copies were printed, but in fact the book was never published, Rene Hague being dissatisfied with the quality of the printing; however some sets of sheets were given away if they deemed satisfactory, in all perhaps twenty to twenty-five sets, none of which were bound at the press.

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

MALORY, Thomas. (Hague & Gill printing - one of only 25 or so copies issued). LANCELOT AND ELAINE. being the Eighteenth to the Twentieth chapters of the Eighteenth book of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur.. High Wycombe: Hague and Gill, 1948.

Price: US$390.05 + shipping

Description: 200 copies of which only about 25 were issued, cr.4to, (158mm), [4],77p. title-page device & chapter heads printed in red, 2 full page & 3 vignette wood engravings by Joan Hassall. A fine copy, untrimmed in quarter black morocco lettered in gilt, marbled paper sides, bookplate. (Chambers Joan Hassall 29) Although the colophon states that 200 copies were printed, the register of the red chapter heads was faulty on the great majority and thus only 25 or so copies were ever issued, and none of these were bound at the press.

Seller: Barry McKay Rare Books, Appleby-in-Westmorland, CUMBR, United Kingdom

Malory, Sir Thomas. Lancelot and Elaine being the eighth to the twentieth chapters of the eighteenth book of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur. Printed and Published by Hague & Gill, 1948.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: [6], 75, [3] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm. Limited edition. Near Fine. One of 200 copies finely printed on handmade paper. Chapter headings and initials in red as is a vignette on the title page by illustrator Joan Hassall. Hardcover. Decorated paper boards. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. The text is from the Caxton edition of 1485, as given by Sommer (1889). "Caxton's misprints have not been corrected." This book was never finished by the press and, supposedly, only 20-25 copies were bound.

Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.

Malory Thomas. Lancelot and Elaine being the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Chapters of the Eighteenth book of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D' Arthur. Hague and Gill (High Wycombe) 1948, 1948.

Price: US$455.06 + shipping

Description: Bookplate of Brian North Lee (designed by Joaan Hassall) to pastedown, VG bright tight copy in decorated paper boards slightly faded to spine. 77pp. Illustrated with two full page and three Vignette Wood Engravings by Joan Hassall. Due to production errors only 25 or so copies were issued, none of which were bound at the Press.

Seller: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller ABA ILAB, Ludlow, United Kingdom

Hague and Gill. Malory (Sir Thomas) Text set in Joanna, with rubricated chapter headings and drop-letters. Lancelot & Elaine. Pigotts,, 1948.

Price: US$491.46 + shipping

Description: Five wood-engravings by Joan Hassall Originally limited to two hundred copies, ‘a series of accidents led to many copies being destroyed and the project abandoned.’ [Printed by Hague and Gill, James Davis, quoting a G. F. Sims catalogue] 12mo Some rubbing to spine edge, but not enough to occlude pattern of paper which is bright and unfaded; slight closed tear half-way down spine and loss of paper at head, but these are minor blemishes to a fine copy, internally sound René Hague, in an unpublished letter, wrote ‘I printed that little book just after. getting back from the war. I wasn’t satisfied with the red and never finished the book. Some years later, I looked at the sheets. and thought some of them weren’t too bad really - so occasionally I used to look out a set of sheets and sell or give them to someone. How many I got rid of like [t]his I can’t remember - ‘20 or 25 copies’ surviving may not be far out - rather more I’d say though. It’s true, its a nice little book; I am very fond of some of the engravings, in particular the one with Westminster.’ This copy one of those remaining copies bound for Sims in Curwen patterned wrappers by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Text block sewn, enclosed in Curwen wrappers with printed label pasted on front wrappers First Edition, though never officially published.

Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom