The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917. Arthur Rackham.
First American trade edition. 523 [2] pp. 8vo. Original publisher’s dark green cloth, front board and spine decorated in gilt. Light wear at corners and spine ends; binding sound; interior clean with normal age toning; gift inscription on front free endpaper: “Aly Shirley Weiss / from Mother / Christmas, 1931.”
The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, abridged from Malory’s Morte d’Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard, illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
An attractive edition bringing together Pollard’s accessible retelling of Malory with the celebrated illustrations of Arthur Rackham. Handsome and unmistakably period in style, with the rich decorative restraint typical of Macmillan’s illustrated cloth bindings of the era. Case 1.
Price: $400.00