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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 Breadsley.

Accession number
PML 43345-47
Creator
Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century.
Published
[London] J. M. Dent, 1893-94.
Credit line
Gift of Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
Notes
Paged continuously.
Colophon: ... Commenced the tenth day of June MDCCCXCIII, and finished the twelfth day of November MDCCCXCIV. Printed in Edinburgh by Turnbull & Spears, and are to be sold by J. M. Dent & Co. ... London.
"This edition ... is limited to 300 copies on Dutch hand-made paper and 1500 ordinary copies, after printing which the type has been distributed.
Library has: "no. 78 of the superior issue."
Description
3 v. : fronts., illus., plates. ; 27 cm
Provenance
Bookplates of John Quinn (in all 3 v.) and Alfred A. Knopf (in v. 1).
Binding
Tan cloth, gilt.
Classification
Department