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Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated at limitation page: "This Edition Consists of Five Hundred Copies Signed by the Artist: 'No. 123, Arthur Rackham'". Rare signed, limited edition printed by MacMillan & Company of London. Large 9" x 11 1/2 x 2 1/2" design weighing over 5 lbs. Cream vellum (leather) boards, gilt embossed cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear generally, some discoloration, wear to bottom area apprx. 1" high x 3" long. Bright gilt cover design features finely detailed bugler knight on regaled horseback; gilt spine design features stylized royal lion w/gilt bands. Frontispiece color plate by Rackham: "How Arthur drew his sword Excalibur for the first time". Pages generally very good; some discoloration, wear to bottom edge of first fifty, first few w/some missing material to same lower area, and moderately throughout, slightly increasing at back few pages. Couple leaves remain uncut. Bind good. Feature sixteen color plates in brilliant subdued hues and seven in black & white by Arthur Rackham. Each color plate features fine tissue guard w/caption. Additional partial-page imagery, headers, tailpieces, symbology and decoration throughout. Attractive, near good first edition. Sir Thomas Malory (1405 - 1471) collected all the ancient tales of the mythical Arthur and published them under the title Le Morte D'Arthur. The characters are familiar: Lancelot and Guinevere, and Tristan and Isolde, here in the definitive account of the Arthurian legends. The vigorous, eloquent epic tale of valor is noted for having been written in the best English prose of the Fifteenth Century. Include 5-page detailed glossary. Printed by R. & R. Clarke, Limited, Edinburgh. 509 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. 1 vol., 11-3/8" x 9-3/8", limited to 500 numbered and signed copies by the illustrator Arthur Rackham this being copy #227, illustrated with 16 tipped in color plates (titled tissue guards after each plate) and 7 B&W illustrations, bound in full dark blue morocco, gilt lettered and decorated spine, covers double ruled in gilt, title gilt to front cover, front cover with blind tooled multi-color morocco onlays reproducing the illustration facing p.274 depicting Sir Lancelot fighting a Dragon, gilt dentelles, blue silk morie pastedowns and endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut as issued, by Asprey. Internally clean and bright, no previous ownership ,markings or bookplate, hinges fine, front cover ever so slight sunned, A WONDERFUL PRESENTATIION IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.
Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.