[Children's & Illustrated] [Beardsley, Aubrey] Malory, Thomas. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of his Noble Knights of the Round Table their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte DArthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of This World of Them All

(London: J.M. Dent & Co.), 1893-94. In three volumes. First and limited edition thus, #294/300 numbered copies of the "superior issue" on Dutch hand-made paper (from a total edition of 1,800). 4to. xc, 290; (iv), (291)-664; (iv), (665)-990, (1) pp. Illustrated with two photogravure frontispieces (first and third volumes), 18 wood-engraved plates (including five double-page), as well as numerous in-text illustrations, designs for chapter headings and borders, initials, and tail-pieces, all by Aubrey Beardsley. Publisher's cream cloth-covered beveled-edge boards, decoratively stamped in gilt after Beardsley's design, spines darkened, wear to spine ends of each volume, small patches of bubbling to cloth; text largely unopened; darkening to plates (as usual); scattered wear along edges of text and plates; offsetting from plates and illustrations. Lasner 22

The deluxe edition of Aubrey Beardsley's Morte Darthur. A handsome, and largely unopened copy.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.