Le Morte d'Arthur: The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur Finely bound

by Birdsall by Thomas Malory, Aubrey Beardsley, Illustrations

$7,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

London: Printed by Turnbull & Spears for J. M. Dent at Aldine House, 1893-1894. First Beardsley edition. Complete in two volumes each measuring 9.25 x 7.5 . Finely bound by Birdsall in gilt-ruled and elaborately ornamented midnight blue levant with arts & crafts gilt-tooled faery vignettes on green, red, and orange morocco onlays, spine with elaborate lady in the lake vignettes over onlays, raised bands, morocco

• Binding: Leather

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