Folio. Headings and shoulder notes in red, initials in red and blue after Graily Hewitt; 29 woodcuts by W.H. Hooper and J.B. Swain after Charles and Margaret Gere, 2 full-page (occasional light spotting to text block). Original brown calf by W. H. Smith & Son, stamp-signed in blind on rear turn-in, spine gilt lettered, gilt-ruled turn-ins (spotting to endpapers and fore-edges, spine faded with several light spots). Provenance: David Macaulay (bookplate).

LIMITED EDITION, one of 145 copies on paper of a total edition of 153, with text based on Southey’s reprint of Caxton’s 1485 edition. "The Morte d'Arthur is a glorious piece of printing…the presswork is miraculous" (Cockerell, qtd. in Franklin, p.107). Hornby 26.