Folio (397 x 277mm). 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. (Scant spotting to a few leaves, offsetting on free endpapers from turn-ins.) Original brown calf by W. H. Smith & Son, stamp-signed in blind on rear turn-in, spine gilt lettered, gilt-ruled turn-ins (spine slightly sunned, a few small scuffs, particularly to edges, spotting to edges).

 

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.