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2 vols. 4to. Full contemporary vellum by Cedric Chivers (see below), boards with gilt roll tool surround and ruled in gilt to surround large hand-painted vignettes in delicate shades of yellow, blue, green and brown with decorative painted floral borders heightened with gilt, spines with hand-lettered title and decoration matching that to the boards, turn-ins ruled in gilt and with decorative corner-pieces, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut. Frontispiece in photogravure to each volume, 18 full-page plates (5 double-page), 21 decorative borders to title of each book, numerous woodcut decorative initials, chapter-headings, vignettes, head-pieces and culs-de-lampe throughout.

First edition in a handsome painted vellum binding.From the edition limited to 1,800 copies, with this one of 1,500 of the ordinary issue.The painted vellum binding by Chivers (mentioned in his catalogue 'Books in Beautiful Bindings') reproduces two of Beardsley's plates from the book. The cover of the first volume reproduces 'How four Queens found Launcelot sleeping' while the cover for the second reproduces 'the achieving of the Sangreal', the frontispiece to the second volume and, a plate described by Weintraub as, 'his first masterpiece'.In 1892, seeking to emulate the books of the Kelmscott Press, John M. Dent commissioned the twenty-year-old Beardsley to produce this edition of Le Morte D'Arthur. The 351 designs appearing in the first edition required eighteen months for the artist to complete.Of this, Beardsley's first major work, John Lewis states: 'In Le Morte d'Arthur Beardsley learnt his job, but the result is no bungling student's work ... If he had never illustrated another book, this edition of Morte d'Arthur could stand as a monument of decorative book illustration ... '.'Bound in whole vellucent from a design by the illustrator of the book. A figure panel enclosed in a floral border.' (Books in Beautiful Bindings).[The Twentieth Century Book, pp. 148-149; Books in Beautiful Bindings 16, XXXVIII].

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Hardcover Good+ with no dust jacket Edition: Third Edition Hardcover. Large 4to. Dutton. 1927. 538 pgs, 4 double page and 17 full page illustrations, 43 ornamental borders, 300 ornamental initials, headpieces, other decorations in the text, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Limited 3rd edition which was limited to 1600 copies. Crown of the spine chipped and lightly worn with a small amount of loss. Bound in blue boards with very ornate gilt floral decoration present on the front board. Ruled in gilt. Gilt floral design along the spine. Lacking the scarce DJ. Top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Original title: "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 D' Arthur with the Delourous Death and Departing out of this World of All of Them." Photos sent upon request. 831; 4to 11" - 13" tall

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