2 volumes in the original 12 parts, 4to (244 x 191 mm). 2 etched frontispieces, 4 double-page and 16 full-page illustrations, numerous ornamental borders, initials, headpieces and other decorations after Beardsley's ink drawings. (Slight mostly marginal toning, slight soiling to a few leaves, some minor offsetting.) Original light green printed pictorial wrappers with a design by Beardsley, uncut and all except part I unopened (5 volumes rebacked preserving original covers, slight chipping to edges with some edges reinforced verso with old cellotape, some minor soiling and toning); together in folding case. 

LIMITED EDITION, one of 1500 unnumbered copies of the Ordinary issue, from the total edition of 1800 copies, IN THE RARE ORIGINAL PARTS, with the notice printed to the inside wrapper of part I, and advertisements on the inside and outside back wrappers. "Published in Beardsley's twenty-first year, the Morte d'Arthur brought him instant recognition and the artistic leadership of a decade often known as the 'Beardsley Period.'... The Malory drawings are his strongest illustrations" (The Artist and the Book 16). Lasner 22.