Lot 403
  • 403

Malory, Sir Thomas.

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Description

  • The Noble and Joyous Book Entytled Le Morte Darthur... Ashendene Press, 1913
folio, limited to 153 copies of which this is one of 145 on paper, printed in red and black, 2 full-page woodcut illustrations and 27 smaller illustrations within the text by W.H. Hooper after Charles M. Gere and Margaret Gere, initials in red and blue after Graily Hewitt, brown calf gilt by W.H. Smith, stamp-signed with initials inside lower cover, spine in compartments and lettered in gilt, minor browning and spotting to edges, browning to extremities of endpapers, binding slightly worn and soiled, spine faded, upper joint splitting at head

Literature

Hornby XXVI