The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

Language: English

Published by Macmillan And Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, London, 1917

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A medieval-fairy-tale atmosphere, that is also dark, dreamlike, heroic & sunny! The Deluxe edition, & one of 500 copies signed by the illustrator, Arthur Rackham, in full vellum, a little marked & rubbed at edges, corners bumped, gilt titles & tooling. Spine, faded, gilt titles & tooling, edges bumped. Internally, half title, publishers details to verso, Rackham signed limitation, coloured frontispiece with guard, title, [6], (v-xxiv), 509 pp, 16 mounted coloured illustrations by Rackham, each with a captioned tissue guards, 7 full page B&W illustrations by Rackham & 66 B&W illustrations within text, bookplate to fpd (Amy Beatrice Huntington), ownership inscription to front free endpaper, a few tiny marks to title, tissue-guard to first plate with few very small nicks to fore-edge, some light offsetting & some light browning to endpapers, t.e.g., others uncut, many partly unopened. (281*226 mm) (Riall p130/1. Latimore/Haskell p47/8). Rackham's Arthurian world doesn't look like a straightforward historical medieval England. It feels more like a dreamlike fairy-tale world, where forests, castles & misty landscapes conceal magic & danger.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table
Author
MALORY Sir Thomas 1399/1408-1471. (POLLARD Alfred W. editor 1859-1944)
Publisher
Macmillan And Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, London
Publication year
1917
Condition
Very Good
Signed
Signed by Illustrator(s)
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
RACKHAM Arthur 1867-1939
Edition
Limited Edition
Item weight
5.4 kilograms
Dimensions
4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Seller catalogs
Fiction, Illustrations and more, Juvenile

Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB)

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