Le Morte d'Arthur de (BEARDSLEY, Aubrey) MALORY, Sir Thomas, - 1927

New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.,, 1927. 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 D' Arthur with the Delourous Death and Departing out of this World of All of Them. Quarto. Original black cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt pictorial decoration to front board, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, complete with dust wrapper, housed in a quarter black morocco solander box by The Chelsea Bindery. Photogravure frontispiece, 4 double page and 17 full page illustrations, 43 ornamental borders, 300 ornamental initials, headpieces, other decorations in the text, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Some slight foxing affecting the upper outer margins of a few leaves at the beginning, the binding is extremely fine and bright, some foxing to the price clipped wrapper. Third edition limited to 1600 copies, this third edition was the first totally complete edition to be published.