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 Darthur with the dolourous death and departing out of this world of them all / the text as written by Sir Thomas Malory and imprinted by William Caxton at Westminster the year MCCCCLXXXV, and now spelled in modern style ; with an introduction by Professor Rhys and embellished with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley.

"This edition of Le morte Darthur is limited to 300 copies on Dutch hand made paper and 1500 ordinary copies, after printing which the type has been distributed."
Place of publication and publisher statement from colophon; publisher's device only on t.p.
Illustrations: ca. 1095 reproductions of drawings by Beardsley from 351 different designs, including photogravure frontispieces in vols. 1 and 2, 13 other full-page ills. and 5 double-page ills.; in "ordinary" issue the plates are all printed directly on paper of the kind used for the text; there is no rubrication (see Walker).
Paged continuously.
Vol. 1: lxiv, 455, [1] p. (the last blank page), [12] leaves of plates.--Vol. 2: [8], lxv-xc, 457-990, [2] p. (the last page blank), [13] leaves of plates (double-page ills. counted as 2 plates each).
Half title: Morte Darthur.
Text modernized by F.J. Simmons.