THE NOBLE AND JOYOUS BOKE ENTYTLED LE MORTE DARTHUR: Notwythstondyng it treateth of the byrth lyf and actes of the sayd Kynge Arthur: of his noble knyghtes of the rounde table,
theyr merveylous enquestes and adventures, thachyevynge of the Sanc-greall and in the ende the dolourous deth: and departynge out of this worlde of them al. . . . In two volumes. Pp. [iv]+xxviii+316+[iv]+376, printed in red & black (mostly double column), pictorial headpieces, numerous loose tissue interleaves; narrow cr. 4to; half orange-red morocco, spines lettered in gilt, cream cloth boards, a trifle soiled; t.e.g., all edges uncut; marbled endpapers; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedowns, book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpapers, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford, 1933. *Edition limited to 370 numbered copies (350 for sale). Ransom p. 28. *The text is from the edition printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498, and is here reprinted for the first time, from the only surviving copy. This was the second of the three most important editions of the Morte Darthur, following Caxton's edition of 1485. Wynkyn de Worde produced another edition in 1529. Item #182173
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