Le Morte D arthur, Aubrey Beardsley

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About this Item: Canterbury Classics, San Diego, California USA, 2015. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator). Leather-bound, all edges gilt with small white spot on fore edge. Intricate gilt on front and spine lightly worn. Illustrated. Pink and gray pictorial end papers. No writing. Clean pages with small dog ear to top of six consecutive pages. Blue satin ribbon page marker. Not library, remainder or reprint. 749 pp. Smoke-free environment. Careful packing and prompt shipping. Satisfaction guaranteed. 259. Seller Inventory # 005274

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About this Item: Penguin Books Ltd, 1985. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. 4to. lv, 534pp. 20 plates. Original cloth, slightly worn, and slightly spotted on end-papers. Dust jacket. Seller Inventory # Y17090105

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About this Item: Published by Studio Editions Ltd., Princess House, 50 Eastcastle Street, London Reprinted Edition . 1992., 1992. High quality facsimile re-issue of Dent's famous edition of 1909, the first single volume edition with Beardsley's illustrations in publisher's original black cloth covers blocked in gilt to the spine and the front cover, top edge gilt, black end sheets. 4to. 11½'' x 8¼''. Contains [liv], 624 printed pages of text with Aubrey Beardsley monochrome illustrations and ornaments throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Heavy volume weighing 2.8 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1851706119 MYTHOLOGY & LEGENDS. Seller Inventory # 102167

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About this Item: London; J. M. Dent & Co. Ltd., 1988. Fifth Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and complete with the slip-case. ; 538 pages; Description: lv, 538 p. , [26] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm. This edition is a fine facsimile of the fourth edition. Subjects: Arthurian romances 4 Kg. Seller Inventory # 59155

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About this Item: London; J. M. Dent & Co. Ltd., 1988. Fifth Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and complete with the slip-case. ; 538 pages; Description: lv, 538 p. , [26] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm. This edition is a fine facsimile of the fourth edition. Subjects: Arthurian romances 4 Kg. Seller Inventory # 59155

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About this Item: Aldine House London by J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1927. No Binding. Condition: Good. Original wraps. No covers ready to be bound. Limited edition of 300 copies on hand-made paper this is number 148. A publisher's note is followed by a note on the designs by R. A. Walker, and six pages of text on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. The eleven omitted designs are followed by a reproduction of the Merlin illustration as well as a sketch for an unused cover design and the cover design that was used. All the plates are in very good condition. I have no idea what ever happened to the boards. Measures 10 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches. Seller Inventory # 7844

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About this Item: Chatto and Windus, 1912. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Special Edition. This book is in Very good condition. There are no bookplates, signatures, or markings of any kind. This book has 23 pages, all of them filled with Sangorski's original illustrations, borders, and lettering designs. There is some light foxing to the endpapers, but the rest of the book is clean. This is the rare Deluxe edition bound in vellum. The original silk ties are missing. A rare find with many beautiful illustrations. Seller Inventory # ABE-1607355893092

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About this Item: Boydell Press, Woodbridge , first edition thus, 1985, 1985. Limited edition of 500 copies. 2 vols, cloth with gilt-blocked cover illustrations in design by Beardsley, [23], 455 + [lxi]-xc, [457]-990, [1] pp, ills. An attractively produced set which reprints in facsimile the small paper issue of the 1893-94 Dent facsimile edition with the addition of a new introduction by Derek Brewer. Includes also an Appendix with "bibliographical details are taken from R.A. Walker, Le Morte Darthur with Beardsley Illustrations: A Bibliographical Essay. Published by the Author.1945". From the new introduction - "In the Beardsley edition of Le Morte Darthur two powerful narrow geniuses are brought side by side. It is hard to think of a lees likely conjunction. Once made, it is unforgettable; it tells us something of significance about each of the pair, and a good deal, directly and indirectly about the Arthurian stories which underlie the strange hybrid. The Beardsley Le Morte Darthur could hardly have been expected, or even wanted; now we have it, who would wish away this most extraordinary incident in the whole strange corpus of Arthurian works?" Set no. 119. Small bookseller label of Henry Sotheran on front pastedown endpaper of Volume I, a Near Fine set with minor rubbing ina slightly used slipcase. Seller Inventory # ABE-47461

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About this Item: E. P. Dutton & Co [issued from Sheets Printed by London J. M. Dent and Sons in London], New York, 1927. Full Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Third Edition. The COMPLETE third edition. One of 1600 copies. Large (12") thick book. This third edition contains TWELVE illustrations not found in the first edition and TWO illustrations not found in the second edition. One of 1600 copies. This was issued by E.P. Dutton using the sheets sent by J. M. Dent and Sons in London. This is the American binding of the same 1600 set with a new title page and Dutton on the spine. Full black cloth. Split at front board and spine with cloth-tape repair to inside hinges. Call letters on spine. Gilding to cover is bright but the spine gilding shows some wear. Lovely Beardley gilt design binding. Top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Lenox Library bookplate behind front cover. frontispiece tissuepaper has an inch closed tear at bottom. Embossed design of Lenox library on title page. Library pocket on rear board with the remains of a return date slip on rear free endpage. Internally in VERY GOOD condition but with problems to the binding that will need to be repaired. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. Seller Inventory # 013643

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About this Item: Lond. Dent., 1927. Folio. Or.cloth with striking gilt design on the front board and spine by Aubrey Beardsley. lv,538pp. uncut. Profusely illustrated with b/w plates and numerous chapter heading illustrations by Beardsley. The third edition limited to 1,600 copies. A splendid edition of a literary classic. Seller Inventory # 185911

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About this Item: Boydell, 1985. Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Limited Edition of only 500 published by Boydell - a facsimile set. 2 volumes in a slipcase bound in brown buckram cloth with extensive gilt decoration and titles. This set is in fine or as new condition. Volume One has an introduction by Derek Brewer, Note on Text, Preface, Caxton's Preface, Caxton's Intorduction, Caxton's tabel of Contents, 9 Books and 12 of Aubrey Beardsley's full-page illustrations. VolumeTwo has a general glossary and 8 full-page Aubrey Beardsley illustrations.  This collection by Sir Thomas Malory is a reworking of the legendary tales of King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table: Malory interprets existing French and English tales and adds original material to these popular stories. Seller Inventory # 000528

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About this Item: E.P Dutton / J.M Dent, 1927. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. "Le Morte d'Arthur" by Thomas Malory, and illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. E.P Dutton / J.M Dent. 1927, third edition released in limited edition of 1600 copies. Very good. Light wear to the boards with bumping to the corners. Spine rebacked, original backstrip laid over. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Seller Inventory # ABE-1534041731649

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About this Item: Boydell, Woodbridge UK, 1985. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Slip-case. Beardsley, Aubrey (illustrator). Limited Edition. Magnificently bound in brown buckram cloth with extensive gilt decoration and titles, this Two Volume hardcover 1985 Limited Edition of 500 (Of which this is No.136) is Fine in Slipcase. Volume One, LX1V/455pp with introduction by Derek Brewer, Note on Text, Preface, Caxton's Preface, Caxton's Intorduction, Caxton's tabel of Contents, 9 Books and 12 of Beardsley's full-page illustrations. VolumeTwo, XC/440pp with 12 Books, General Glossary and 8 full-page Beardsley illustrations. Condition as new! Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 0018264

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About this Item: E. P. Dutton, 1927. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Beardsley, Aubrey (illustrator). 1st Edition. Not until this, the third edition, was an effort made to collect the fullest body of those illustrations which Beardsley had originally intended to accompany the seminal text of Malory. Published in America by E. P. Dutton in 1927 in an edition limited to 1600 copies. Introduction by Professor John Rhys and a note on Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. Beardsley devoted no small degree of himself - and his extraordinary talent - to the illustration of Le Morte D'Arthur. Lacking the original dust jacket, this is a very good copy marred only by abrasion to the cloth at the top and bottom foredges of the front board and just a slight bit of rubbing to the lower corner of the front board decoration. Bound in cloth with beveled edges, spine and front panel decorated and lettered in gold - a beautiful and visually appealing example of what happens when the proper literary work is illustrated by the proper artist - and then presented with appropriate care by the right publisher. The book bears the original woodcuts of J.J. Lankes on bookplates of the owners ( husband and wife ) Harry O'Neil and Margaret MvcPherson. A very attractive copy. Seller Inventory # 002757

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About this Item: The Boydell Press (printed by The Moxon Press, Leeds, on antique laid paper made by William Somerville and bound by Alderman Bookbinding, Ipswich), London, 1985. Legature editoriali in piena tela beige con titoli e ricche impressioni in oro al ds. e ai piatti. Entro cofanetto rigido. Esemplare in perfetto stato di conservazione. Edizione a tiratura limitata di 500 copie che riproduce in facsimile la prima edizione dell opera, con l aggiunta di una introduzione di Derek Brewer. 8vo (cm. 24), 2 Voll., 12 cc.nn., LXIV pp., 455(1) pp.; 5 cc.nn., da p. LXV a p. XC, da p. 457 a p. 990, 3 cc.nn., 15(1) pp. Con fregi, decorazioni, num.me ill.ni n.t. e tavv. (anche a doppia pagina) f.t., il tutto opera di Aubrey Beardsley. Seller Inventory # 8182

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About this Item: J.M Dent & Sons, 1927. Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator). Third Edition. THIRD EDITION Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, with 10 new illustrations, limited to 1600 copies, lv, 538pp., teg, others uncut, some slight foxing to prelims, foxing to outer page edges, original fine floral gilt decorated cloth covers, one corner a little bumped, 4 small dents and two very small tears to back cover, slightly rubbed, light scratches to front board. 11.75" x 9". Illustrated. Seller Inventory # 007020

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About this Item: The Folio Society, London, 2003. Facsimile edition: quarto; full black Nigerian goatskin with gilt decorations, gilt spine-titling, a grey ribbon and laid paper endpapers; 538pp., all text block edges gilt, with an illustrated monochrome frontispiece and 20 monochrome plates. Fine in like buckram solander box, titled in gilt on a black leather spine label, with an accompanying introductory booklet - "Thomas Malory, the 'Morte Darthur' and Aubrey Beardsley" by Anthony S.G. Edwards: small folio; laid paper wrappers; 16pp. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Number 671 of a limited edition run of 1020 facsimile copies of the original printing by William Caxton, as revived by J.M. Dent in 1927. Seller Inventory # 75632

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About this Item: E. P. Dutton, New York, 1927. Hardcover. Limited Third Edition. Book condition is Very Good+, bound in full dark blue cloth with beveled edges and embossed gilt decorations on front cover and spine. Gilt top page edges. Minimal edge wear to boards. Much of this volume remains uncut and pages unopened as issued. This third edition is the most robust, as it contains all illustrations and decorations omitted in previous editions. 20 full-page illustrations, hundreds of ornamental illustrations in text. Limited to 1,600 copies. Small 4to. Seller Inventory # 14809

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About this Item: London, J. M. Dent & Co., 1909., 1909. Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. BEARDSLEY (A.) (illustrator). 26,5 x 21 cm, 624 p., illustrations en noir. Relié, cartonnage vert à décors dorés de l'éditeur. Tirage limité à 1500 exemplaires numérotés (1000 pour U.K. et 500 pour E.U.) pour cette seconde édition illustrée par Aubrey Beardsley, mais la première en un volume avec ces illustrations : 20 hors-texte à pleine page dont un frontispice gravé et 5 sur double page. Il a également réalisé les en-tête de chapitre, lettrines, illustrations in-texte et ornements divers. Très bel exemplaire de cet ouvrage abondamment illustré, communément considéré, à juste titre, comme l'oeuvre majeure du maître anglais de l'Art Nouveau. On sent également perler ici l'influence de l'art japonais. Ex-libris non identifié. Livre d'occasion. Seller Inventory # 23

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About this Item: J.M. Dent, London, 1927. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Original cream vellum with gilt floral decoration. Sheepskin spine titled in gilt. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. This is no. 138. With a foreword by Aimer Vallance and a note on the omitted designs by Rainford Armitage Walker. Decorative woodcut initials. Contains the 11 chapter headings omitted from the first edition, the Merlin illustration, a (tipped in) sketch for a cover design that was not used and the cover design for the original issue in parts. 45,(2) pp. 26,5 x 21 cm. A very fine copy. Seller Inventory # 002138

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About this Item: J.M. Dent, London, 1893. First edition. Octavo, 990 pp. Hardcover without jacket as issued. First edition, rebound as four volumes (originally published as two) in quarter-bound red leather and marbled paper. Head edges gilt; spine red leather with elaborate gilt decoration and five raised bands. Original cream and gilt cloth covers and spines bound in at front and rear of volumes 1, 2, and 4. Bumping and shelf-wear. Sunning and chipping to spines. Age-toning to boards. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down end papers of all volumes. Marbled end papers have mild age toning to margins; faint toning to margins of text and offsetting where ribbon bookmarks had been. Hinges starting. Good copy only. This edition of Le Morte D'Arthur is limited to 1500 ordinary copies and 300 copies on Dutch Hand Made paper. This copy is the former. Includes many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley. Shelve: CASE #3 Spines are dark red with gilt text and decoration. 1247631. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1247631

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About this Item: J.M.Dent & Company, London, UK, 1893. Hardcover. Condition: GOOD+. One of a Limited Edition of 1500, complete in two hardback volumes. Illustrated throughout by Aubrey Beardsley. Complete with all plates (20 plates, including 4 double page), and decorative designs throughout. Original cream cloth with elaborate gilt decoration to the spines and front boards, rough cut page edges. Bindings have faint age tanning and foxing, 1" edge rubbed thru to threads on front cover of V2, top front edge. slight softening of spine ends and rubbing to cover corners. Interior has light age tanning. (London: J M Dent & co, 1893-1894) SUBTITLE: "The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, their Marvelous Endquests and Adventures, The Achieving of the San Greal, and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of This World of Them All." "The Text as Written by Sir Thomas Malory and Imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the Year MCCCCLXXXV, and Now Spelled in Modern Style; With an Introduction by Professor Rhys, and Embellished with many Original Designs by Aubrey Beardsley MDCCCXCIII. " Beardsley's first major work, and a classic of Art Nouveau book illustration. 8 x 9.75 x 2"(20 x 24.7 x 5cm) 990 pages + advertising pages. Seller Inventory # 8-0X004

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About this Item: Dent 1893-1894, London, 1893. Cloth Boards. Illus. Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator). 1st edition thus. 1st ed thus., limited edition, complete in two volumes, quarto, original cream cloth boards with gilt decoration. Complete with all plates (20 plates, including 4 double page) by Aubrey Beardsley with his decorative designs throughout. Limited to 1,800 copies printed. Rubbed to edges, a little darkening to cloth as usual, split along upper spine of vol I and faint red line on front board, previous owner's bookplate front endpaper of both vols (anthropologist D'Arcy Ryan) with his ink signature front free endpaper vol.I, with an earlier pencil signature upper front paste-down vol.II 'H.T. Buckland, Nov. 1895' (likely the British architect Herbert Tudor Buckland), light foxing to endpapers but otherwise clean, uncut, top-edge gilt, very good condn. A landmark work in decorative books. The text is that printed by Caxton in 1485, in Southey's edition of 1817, and revised for this edition. Published in parts 1893-1894. Renowned for Beardsley's Art Nouveau illustrations. Seller Inventory # ABE93181

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About this Item: Dent, London, 1894. Beardsley, Aubrey. First edition, one of 1500 ordinary copies (of 1800 total). 4 double page plates and 16 full-page wood engravings plus numerous textual drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. 2 vols. 4to (9 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches). Lasner 22; Ray, England 314 Original gilt decorated cloth after Beardsley, t.e.g. all others untrimmed. Heads slightly worn, spines slightly darkened, otherwise Very Good 4 double page plates and 16 full-page wood engravings plus numerous textual drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. 2 vols. 4to (9 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches) First edition, one of 1500 ordinary copies (of 1800 total). Seller Inventory # 265640

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About this Item: J M Dent 1893-1894, London, 1893. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. 10 lbs le Morte D'Arthur. 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 Dolourous Death and Departing out of this World of Them All. The Text as written by Sir Thomas Malory and imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the year MCCCLXXXV and now spelled in modern style. With an introduction by Professor Rhys and embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley. [Part I - XII]. 3/4 blue morocco & cloth, gilt, T. E. G. , other edges untrimmed; joints & spines often rubbed. With 20 plates (incl double-page) , text illus, decorated initials, &c. Light foxing to front matter otherwise clean. Bound from the orig 12 parts. Top edge vilt. Partially unopened[uncut]. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED. Limited 1/1500.1st Beardsley ed. Over 300 Beardsley illustrations. 9.75" x 8.25". Beardsley's first major work. A classic of Art Nouveau book it is one of the great illustrated books of the turn of the century. Seller Inventory # 35101

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About this Item: London: J. M. Dent, 1893, 1893. 2 volumes, quarto. Original yellow cloth, spines lettered in gilt, spines and front covers stamped in gilt with floral patterns, publisher's device to rear covers in gilt, cloth bookmarks, top edges gilt. Spines a little darkened and ends worn, cover of vol. 1 a little sunned and vol. 2 lightly foxed. Light wear to extremities, an occasional offsetting, else contents bright. With illustrated frontispieces and 17 similar plates, black and white illustrations by Beardsley. First edition, one of 1,500 ordinary paper copies, of a total edition of 1,800 copies. 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. Bored with the project, Beardsley at last refused to complete Dent's original projection of 500 drawings. 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" (Lewis, The Twentieth Century Book, pp. 148-9). Seller Inventory # 143517

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