Lot 265 , Malory, Sir Thomas - Le Morte Darthur. By Syr Thomas Malory. The original edition of William Caxton now reprinted and edited by H. Oskar Sommer....3 vols. Limited Edition (of 100 copies for sale, numbered and signed by t

° Malory, Sir Thomas - Le Morte Darthur. By Syr Thomas Malory. The original edition of William Caxton now reprinted and edited by H. Oskar Sommer....3 vols. Limited Edition (of 100 copies for sale, numbered and signed by the publisher). Titles printed in red and black. 4 folded tables, facsimile printed leaf and 'Caxton's blank leaf', decorated initial letters; earlier 20th cent. chocolate levant morocco, gilt and blind ruled on covers including central triple fillets with corner fleurons, gilt ruled and decorated panelled spines lettered direct, gilt tops, gilt ruled and decorated turn-ins, marbled e/ps. (by Zaensdorf), roy. 4to. David Nutt, 1889-1901
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Condition:
Vols. with sl. wear at corners; vol. I Text, vol. 2 Introduction, vol. 3 Studies of the Sources (introductory essay by Andrew Lang) xii, 863; ix, 231 and xxvii, 339pp.; limitation leaf (set no. 67) vol. I. Sotheran's ticket on e/ps.; the fore and lower edges are rough trimmed. All pages and illustrations are present and correctly bound. frontispieces - I don't know of frontispieces for this book, the titles are printed in red and black, nb. slight wear head of spines and joints also.

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