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Thursday 23 April 2026, 03:00 PM • Rome

253 Illustrati inglesi

Aubrey Beardsley, Thomas Malory

Le Mort d'Arthur - The birth Life and Acts of king Arthur of his noble Knights of the Round Table, 1927

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New York, E. P. Dutton and Company [Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh], 1927. Large quartet, 294 x 228 mm., third edition, with profuse illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, marginal foxing . Decorated and gilt cloth, gilt upper edge (otherwise foxing), hinge nearly detached, spine flaws. Modern bookplate on the pastedown. One of 1,600 copies printed of this edition.

Specialist Notes

THIRD EDITION . Six-page preface on Aubrey Beardsley by Aylmer Vallance, fifteen-page introduction by John Rhys, one-page note by R. A. Walker, "A Note on the Designs Omitted from the First Edition." Includes ten chapter titles omitted from the first edition, included by mistake in the second edition, and included intentionally for the first time in this edition. Featuring Beardsley's cover design for the first time, entirely from the original design. Profusely illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley , with numerous full-page black-and-white drawings, some of them protected by tissue paper, and numerous black-and-white drawings in the text.

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