Le Morte Darthur; The Story of King Arthur & of His Noble Knights of the Round Table
de Sir Thomas Malory
- Usado
- near fine
- Estado
- Near Fine
- Librería
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Limited Editions Club / Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. Limited edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Quarto. (12 1/2" x 8"). . 1/4 blue linen over paper patterned boards in slipcase. Three volume set. Illustrated with woodcuts by Robert Gibbons. Limited to 1500 copies signed by the artist of which this is copy #484. Note describing work laid-in. Some shelfwear to the slipcase. Light sun toning to edges of covers.
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
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 77149
- Título
- Le Morte Darthur; The Story of King Arthur & of His Noble Knights of the Round Table
- Autor
- Sir Thomas Malory
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard Cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Limited edition
- Editorial
- Limited Editions Club / Golden Cockerel Press
- Fecha de publicación
- 1936
- Palabras clave
- LEC
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Private Press;
- Atención
- Puede que se trate de un conjunto de varios volúmenes y requiera de gastos de envío adicionales.
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- Shelfwear
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- Fine
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- Quarto
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