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Easton Press, 2015. PRINTED in 2015; Limited to 600 numbered copies, 448 pp., gilt-stamped full blue leather, moire endpapers, LIKE NEW very good slipcase that has some rubbing and discoloration to its bottom front edge. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.

London: J. M. Dent,, 1903. King's "most important achievement" (White) First King edition, one of 225 "sumptuously produced" large paper copies, this number 54 of the English issue. This edition was the first to feature illustrations by Jessie Marion King (1875–1949) and showcases her fine and delicate work. King's frontispiece for the present work was commissioned by Dent earlier in 1903 for Lady Charlotte Guest's translation of The Mabinogion, and its success there led to this more substantial undertaking. King's drawings, which "stressed the fantastic elements in the story" are reminiscent of those done for the grail story by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, both of whom were intimate friends of the translator (White). The work features a form of double frame which became distinct in King's work, "giving the reader a suspended glimpse of a land and time remote from reality... allowing access to the same ancient truths from which the legends had grown" (ibid.). "Influenced by a… Read More

London, J. M. Dent, 1903.. FIRST EDITION 1903, EDITION DE LUXE LIMITED TO 225 LARGE PAPER COPIES FOR ENGLAND AND AMERICA, THIS BEING No. 34 OF THE ENGLISH COPIES, 4to, 260 x 180 mm, 10¼ x 7 inches, bevelled boards, vellum binding illustrated pale blue and gilt on upper cover and spine, lettered pale blue on upper cover, top edges gilt, pages: xvii, 379. Mounted frontispiece and extra illustrated title page printed red and black on India paper with tissue guard, 22 very beautiful mounted plates, all with tissue guards, 17 printed red and black, 5 black only, exquisite decorative head- and tailpieces also. Spine slightly darkened and slightly rubbed at head and tail, a few faint marks to covers, neat modern bookplate on front pastedown and an early one on front endpaper, endpapers lightly browned, frontispiece and extra title page foxed due to the foxed tissue guard, last plate foxed very slightly in margin, a few faint fox spots on letterpress title page. Contents otherwise very nice. A very good plus… Read More