LE MORTE DARTHUR
de MALORY, SIR THOMAS
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Aceptable/No Dust Jacket
- Librería
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. All edges are gilt. The covers and spine are finely-decorated and lettered in gilt. Sewn-in silk bookmark. A copy of Notes From The Archives is laid-in. "The birth life and acts of King Arthur of his noble knights of the Round Table their marvellous enquests and adventures......." This edition was first published in 1895 using the text of Malory and imprinted by William Caxton . "Now spelled in modern style embellished with many original designs by AUBREY BEARDSLEY". 538pp. An example of some of the finest work by the Easton Press.. The Collector's Library of Famous Editio. Full Black Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Demi Quarto.
Sinopsis
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reseñas
El Jul 30 2014, SimonTremarco dijo:
The Norton Critical Edition edition by Stephen Shepherd makes for an ideal presentation of Malory, one that strongly evokes the experience of reading the original Winchester manuscript, but at the same time gives plenty of help for the modern reader. Introduction, explanatory notes and glossary are finely judged. Note that this edition is in original spelling and is unabridged: a lower degree of difficulty can be found in Helen Cooper's abridged, modern-spelling edition (Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics)).
The editor expresses some hesitation (p. xii) over the decision to break the text up into modern paragraphs, and not simply to reproduce the manuscript's placement of paragraph symbols in unbroken text. It's not a big issue, but I for one would have found this method attractive, the bold paragraph symbols (as I imagine) breaking up the text adequately and giving an even more distinctive, manuscript-like feel to it.
The only thing that slightly detracts from the book for me is the typesetting of the verso pages (the left-hand pages of each opening), which goes against traditional practice. Since the text is prose, set justified left and right, the marginal annotations of the left-hand pages could easily have been placed in the outer margin, in a mirror image of the right-hand pages. As it is there is a stark, mostly empty space along the inner edge of the left page, while the text comes to within a few millimetres of the outer edge, disturbing to the eye and leaving no thumb-room. Poetry has to be set this way, of course, with its ragged right edge - and in any case the narrower columns of text are easier to keep clear of the page's edge. But if this is Norton house style for prose, I can't see why it's necessary.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Glenn Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 014895
- Título
- LE MORTE DARTHUR
- Autor
- MALORY, SIR THOMAS
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Dust Jacket
- Edición
- The Collector's Library of Famous Editio
- Editorial
- The Easton Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Tamaño
- Demi Quarto
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- English History, King Arthur, Fine Binding, Malory
Términos de venta
Glenn Books
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Sobre el vendedor
Glenn Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
Sobre Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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