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.

Half title: Morte Darthur.
Edited by F.J. Simmons.
Place of publication and publisher statement from colophon.
Paged continuously.
Illustrated with ca. 1095 reproductions of drawings by Beardsley from 351 different designs, including photogravure frontispieces in vols. 1 and 3, 13 other full-page illustrations and 5 double-page illustrations. Publisher's device on t.p. and 23 ornamental initials printed in red. Frontispieces printed on India paper and mounted.
... 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 & Company ... London."--Colophon, v. 3.
Issued in 12 parts, June 1893-Nov. 1894. Copies on Dutch hand-made paper issued for binding in 3 v. Title page and other preliminaries to v. 1 issued in pt. 6; title pages and other preliminaries to v. 2-3 issued in pt. 12, with cancel contents for v. 1 and cancel list of illustrations (to replace v. 1, p. [v]-viii).
"Limited to 300 copies on Dutch hand made paper and 1500 ordinary copies, after printing which the type has been distributed."--Half title verso, v. 1.
Library has no. 294 of 300 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper.