1910 · London
by MALORY, Sir Thomas
London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society Ltd, 1910. FLINT, W. Russell; RICCARDI PRESS|POLLARD, Alfred W.. With Forty-Eight Mounted Color Plates after Watercolor Drawings by W. Russell Flint
FLINT, W. Russell, [illustrator]. MALORY, Sir Thomas. POLLARD, Alfred W., [editor]. RICCARDI PRESS. Le Morte Darthur. The Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table. By Sir Thomas Malory, Knt. London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society Ltd., 1910.
Full Description:
[FLINT, W. Russell, illustrator]. MALORY, Sir Thomas. Le Morte Darthur. The Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table. By Sir Thomas Malory, Knt. London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society Ltd., 1910-[19]11.
One of 500 numbered copies printed on handmade Riccardi Paper, out of a total edition of 512 copies. This being number 292. Four quarto volumes (10 1/2 x 8 inches; 265 x 200 mm). xx, 168, [1, colophon], [1, blank], [1, printer’s device], [1, blank]; xvi, 179, [1, blank], [1, colophon], [1, blank], [1, printer’s device], [1, blank]; xvi, 208, [1, colophon], [1, blank], [1, printer’s device], [1, blank]; xvi, 212, [1, colophon], [1, blank], [1, printer’s device], [1, blank] pp. Forty-eight mounted color plates, after watercolor drawings by W. Russell Flint. With descriptive tissue guards printed in red. Title-pages with the lettering designed by Miss M. Engall and the figures by W. Russell Flint.
Original full limp vellum lettered in gilt on front covers and spines. Yapp edges. Green silk ties. Top edge gilt, others. uncut. A bit of foxing to fore-edges. Vellum is a bit toned. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Housed in the original cardboard slipcases. Cases with some repairs. Overall a near a fine copy.
“Imprinted after the text of William Caxton as modernized, under the editorship of Alfred W. Pollard, for the Library of English Classics...in the Riccardi Press fount, by Charles T. Jacobi” (Colophon of Volume IV).
Ransom, Private Presses, p. 395, no. 3. Tomkinson, p. 149, no. 3.
HBS 69413.
$2,500. (Inventory #: 69413)
FLINT, W. Russell, [illustrator]. MALORY, Sir Thomas. POLLARD, Alfred W., [editor]. RICCARDI PRESS. Le Morte Darthur. The Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table. By Sir Thomas Malory, Knt. London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society Ltd., 1910.
Full Description:
[FLINT, W. Russell, illustrator]. MALORY, Sir Thomas. Le Morte Darthur. The Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table. By Sir Thomas Malory, Knt. London: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society Ltd., 1910-[19]11.
One of 500 numbered copies printed on handmade Riccardi Paper, out of a total edition of 512 copies. This being number 292. Four quarto volumes (10 1/2 x 8 inches; 265 x 200 mm). xx, 168, [1, colophon], [1, blank], [1, printer’s device], [1, blank]; xvi, 179, [1, blank], [1, colophon], [1, blank], [1, printer’s device], [1, blank]; xvi, 208, [1, colophon], [1, blank], [1, printer’s device], [1, blank]; xvi, 212, [1, colophon], [1, blank], [1, printer’s device], [1, blank] pp. Forty-eight mounted color plates, after watercolor drawings by W. Russell Flint. With descriptive tissue guards printed in red. Title-pages with the lettering designed by Miss M. Engall and the figures by W. Russell Flint.
Original full limp vellum lettered in gilt on front covers and spines. Yapp edges. Green silk ties. Top edge gilt, others. uncut. A bit of foxing to fore-edges. Vellum is a bit toned. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Housed in the original cardboard slipcases. Cases with some repairs. Overall a near a fine copy.
“Imprinted after the text of William Caxton as modernized, under the editorship of Alfred W. Pollard, for the Library of English Classics...in the Riccardi Press fount, by Charles T. Jacobi” (Colophon of Volume IV).
Ransom, Private Presses, p. 395, no. 3. Tomkinson, p. 149, no. 3.
HBS 69413.
$2,500. (Inventory #: 69413)