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lv, [1], 538 pp. Illustrated with 20 full page plates, including 2 from etchings and 18 from woodcuts (five are double-page) by Aubrey Beardsley with tissue-guards, plus approx. 280 woodcut chapter headers, initials, borders and ornaments throughout the text. Introduction by John Rhys. Note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. Note on the designs omitted from the first edition by R. A. Walker. Caxton's Preface from the 1485 edition. Glossary. 11½x8¾, original gilt decorated and stamped black cloth, beveled edges, untrimmed, many pages unopened, t.e.g., decorative jacket. One of 1600 copies. Third Beardsley Edition.

Beardsley's first major work. An elaborately illustrated third edition of Sir Thomas Malory's masterpiece in facsimile format from Caxton's 1485 typographic classic. Beardsley's illustrations to Le Morte d'Arthur are a mix of knights and fauns, swans, fantasy figures, all in his "fin de siecle" style. This edition is the first to include all of the eleven designs that were omitted from the first edition.