Le Morte d’Arthur. 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.

The text as written by Sir Thomas Malory and imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the year MCCCCLXXXV and now spelled in modern style, embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley. With an introduction by Professor John Rhys and a note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. London : Dent, 1927. Quarto: striking gilt decorated publisher’s cloth (edges a little rubbed, joints cracked and repaired), top edge gilt, others uncut, pp. lvi; 538, extensively illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. The third edition with Beardsley designs limited to 1600 copies. A bright copy.

Beardsley’s justly acclaimed illustrated edition of the legend of King Arthur, with additional illustrations to the preceding two editions.