[Malory, Sir Thomas]

3 parts in one volume, 4to (7 x 5 1/4 in.; 178 x 134 mm). Three title-pages each with a repeated large woodcut frontispiece showing King Arthur encircled by the Knights of the Round Table with names of thirty knights at head and foot of page, headpiece of printer's ornaments, gothic type; moderately browned and dampstained throughout, small wormtrack in upper outer corner of quires I-K affecting a few letters, third frontispiece with upper margin mended. Nineteenth-century black antique blind-ruled calf, gilt-stamped red leather title label on spine, red edges; upper joint cracked, extremities rubbed.

James Hepburn (Loyalist merchant, d.  1798, engraved bookplate with motto "Keep Tryst") — Bent Juel-Jensen (bookplate). acquisition: gift of Bent Juel-Jenson, 2007

STC 806; ESTC S100230; Grolier/Wither to Prior 532

moderately browned and dampstained throughout, small wormtrack in upper outer corner of quires I-K affecting a few letters. Nineteenth-century black antique blind-ruled calf, gilt-stamped red leather title label on spine, red edges; upper joint cracked, extremities rubbed.
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Sixth edition, the last edition to be printed before the nineteenth century. The language of the text was modified to suit Jacobean taste.