Accession number
PML 89054
Creator
Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century.
Published
New York : The Macmillan Company, 64-66 Fifth Avenue, 1917.
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
Sixteen full-page color illustrations, seven uncolored illustrations, including frontispiece, and several vignettes, most signed Arthur Rackham
Each color plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress in red.
"The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the new illustrated Macmillan books"--following text.
"Copyright, 1917, by the Macmillan Company. Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1917"--verso of t.p.
"Norwood Press, J.S. Cushing Co. - Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A."--verso of t.p.
"H. Wesson Bull Jr. from grandma Bull. Christmas 1919."-- inscription in blue ink on fly-leaf.
"To Lincoln from Wesson. May 4, 1923"-- inscription in blue ink on fly-leaf.
Laid in: Happy birthday card, May 4, written in blue ink from Wesson Bull to Lincoln Kirstein.
"Characterista, a one act play. Characters: a pre-Raphaelite and another. We shall call them L. and W."-- A nine line dedication from Wesson Bull to Lincoln Kirstein in blue ink inside upper cover.
Each color plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress in red.
"The following pages contain advertisements of a few of the new illustrated Macmillan books"--following text.
"Copyright, 1917, by the Macmillan Company. Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1917"--verso of t.p.
"Norwood Press, J.S. Cushing Co. - Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A."--verso of t.p.
"H. Wesson Bull Jr. from grandma Bull. Christmas 1919."-- inscription in blue ink on fly-leaf.
"To Lincoln from Wesson. May 4, 1923"-- inscription in blue ink on fly-leaf.
Laid in: Happy birthday card, May 4, written in blue ink from Wesson Bull to Lincoln Kirstein.
"Characterista, a one act play. Characters: a pre-Raphaelite and another. We shall call them L. and W."-- A nine line dedication from Wesson Bull to Lincoln Kirstein in blue ink inside upper cover.
Description
xxiv, [1], 517, [7] p., [23] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 17 cm
Provenance
H. Wesson Bull Jr., inscription ; from the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's green pictorial bead-grain cloth, blocked in gold, top edge stained black.
Classification
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Department