LE MORTE DARTHUR 4 Vols
by Malory, Thomas
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Malory, Thomas LE MORTE DARTHUR 4 Vols London: Published by Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society, 1910 - 1911. Sir William Russell Flint. Limited, Numbered Edition. Limp Vellum. LE MORTE DARTHUR by Sir Thomas Malory / Sir William Russell Flint (Illustrator) Malory, Thomas Published by Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society, London, 1910 - 1911 The Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table. In four volumes. London, Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society 1910-1911. With 48 color plates after watercolors by William Russell Flint. Flexible original parchment bindings with ties. Title on spine and front covers embossed in gold, gilt head section. Copy 331 of 500 on Riccardi laid paper, another twelve were printed on parchment. – Revised by Alfred W. Pollard from the text version of the Caxton edition. – Set from the type designed by HP Horne based on Venetian models. – The title font and the initials were designed by M. Engall. – Printed by Charles T. Jacobi at Chiswick Press. – Six of the eight issues of the "Illustrated Quarto Series" contain illustrations by the Scottish painter William Russell Flint (1880–1969), who was one of the most successful and well-known book illustrators in the English kingdom at the time. – The color plates were printed as chromolithographs and mounted on laid paper, each plate with a silk cover sheet with text quotation in red. 27.4 : 20.5 cm. – Limp Velllum Very Good, with With Printers orivginal prospectus Tomkinson 149, I/3. – Ransom 395, I/3. Very Good. Item #516
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- E. C. Rare Books [ABA / ABAC] (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 516
- Title
- LE MORTE DARTHUR 4 Vols
- Author
- Malory, Thomas
- Illustrator
- Flint Russell
- Format/Binding
- Limp Vellum
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- numbered
- Publisher
- Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1910
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LE MORTE DARTHUR
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...