Le Morte D'arthur
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Published in 2003 - Le Morte D'arthur by Malory.
Facsimile of version illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Bound in black Nigerian goatskin with gilt decorations, gilt spine-titling. Grey ribbon marker. Laid paper endpapers. Text block edge dyed gilt. Illustrated monochrome frontispiece and 20 monochrome plates. Separate 16pp leaflet by Anthony Edwards "Thomas Malory, the Morte Darthur and Aubrey Beardsley". 538pp. 1020 copies
From the Limitation Page
This facsimile edition of Le Morte D'arthur has been printed for the Folio Society, London, by the Bath Press, Avon, on Camelot Laid paper, specially made for this edition at the James Cropper Mill at Burneside in Cumbria and supplied by Johyn Purcell Paper. The binding design has been redrawn by Frances Button from the 1927 edition. The binding has been executed by Smith Settle at Otley, Yorkshire in full Nigerian goatskin, with handmade laid endpapers from the Fabriano Mill, Italy. One thousand and twenty copies have been printed of which one thousand are for sale.
This is copy number: 687
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