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2 volumes. Illustrated throughout by Aubrey Beardsley with plates, vignettes in text, initials, decorations, etc. 9½x7¼, original cloth decoratively gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. First Edition. One of 1500 copies of the regular issue, from a total edition of 1800.

Aubrey Beardsley's first important work, containing over 300 of his designs. "In Le Morte DArthur Beardsley learnt his job, but the result is no bungling student's work..If he had never illustrated another book, this edition of Morte DArthur could stand as a monument of decorative book illustration" (in The Twentieth Century Book, pp. 148-149). Beardsley was 20 years old when Dent first commissioned him with this project.