Le Morte Darthur - Sir Thomas Malory - Aubrey Beardsley - JM Dent and sons HC (1927)

Title:  Le Morte Darthur

Author: Sir Thomas Malory (Illustrations Aubreay Beardsley)

Edition: Trade Hardcover, HC (1972), Fourth edition (Oversized) / A facsimile of the (1927 limited third edition) with addenda.

Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. UK

Description: The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of His Noble Knights of the Round Table Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of This World of Them All. 

Illustrated edition of perhaps the best-known work of Arthurian literature in English, containing three additional illustrations not appearing in the third edition. Quarto, original publisher's cloth with gilt art-deco botanical design by Aubrey Beardsley, some pages uncut, top edge gilt, illustrated with twenty-two plates by Beardsley, numerous in-text designs, and head- and tail-pieces throughout. 

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author whose black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. He is considered one of the important Modern Style figures for his significant contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles. His very first commission was for J. M. Dent and Company, illustrating Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur.'.

Note: Reflection of gold is scanner/brodart. Gilt is clean