Malory, Thomas [Beardsley, Aubrey]. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur; Of His Noble Knights of the Round Table Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures The Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolorous Death and Departing Out of This World of Them All. With an Introduction by Professor Rhys and Embellished with Many Original Designs by Aubrey Beardsley. William Caxton, Westminster, 1909.

Price: US$525.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Quarto, liv, 624pp. Rebound in quarter morocco, title in gilt on spine. Marbled paper boards, new endpapers. Solid text block, light wear to corners, even toning throughout, a near fine example. Previous bookseller's label affixed to front endpaper. Limitation page states this second edition printing with Aubrey Beardsley designs "is limited to 1000 copies for the United Kingdom and 500 for America." Complete with twenty full-page plates, with numerous in-text illustrations. Frontispiece protected by tissue guard.

Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.