Morte d’Arthur. Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table.

The original edition of Caxton revised for modern use, with an appendix by Sir Edward Strachey, Bart. London : Macmillan and Co., 1868. Second edition. Octavo, fine presentation binding from Wesley College, Melbourne, full polished calf, vignette of the College on upper board, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt ornamentation, contrasting Morocco title label lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, front free endpaper loosening and hinge cracked, pp. xxxvii; (iii); 496, text in two columns, a very good copy.

Sir Thomas Malory’s classic account of Arthurian folklore, drawn from English and French sources, with tales of the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table,