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The fourth edition, revised, to which is added an Index explaining the names of countries, cities, rivers, &c. (24),341,(15)pp followed by 4pp publisher's catalogue.  Bound to style in full calf tooled in a Cambridge design. Spine in five compartments with raised bands; red leather lettering label, gilt.  Marbled endpapers. The title page is in the first state (no priority) without mention of Knapton and the other printers. Text block lightly age-toned, with occasional light foxing, else this is a very good copy in a fine binding.  'Prince Arthur'  is one of the earliest  of the Arthurian revivals. During the Commonwealth and thereafter stories of Kings and Queens were out of vogue. Even Malory's opus went unprinted for nearly 200 years, from 1634 until 1816. This edition of Prince Arthur is the fourth and last, and the first in small format. First published in 1695, it was instantly popular, and went through three editions by 1696.  See Lowndes 211. ESTC T74304.
Prince Arthur. An Heroick Poem. In Ten Books.
Blackmore, Richard
London: Printed for J. Tonson at Shakespear's-Head, over against Catherine-Street in the Strand,, 1714.
Price: $350.00
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A Broadside, finely printed by Asa Peavy in red and black on a Legion Letterpress in an edition of 208 copies. Wood engravings by George Walker. The text is from 'A Crowne-Garland of Goulden Roses', London, 1612. This is the first printing of the Arthurian sonnet since then, and a very nice job Asa has done of it. The three wood engravings are well executed: The knight and the maid; the hag; and the (absolutely stunning) flea. Unframed; shipped rolled.
A New Sonnet of a Knight & a Faire Virgin
Johnson, Richard
San Francisco: Bullnettle Press, 1998.
Price: $50.00
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Publisher's grteen paper over boards. A fine, as new copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is fine as well. Inscribed by Cooper on on the title page. The thiord book in the Dark is Rising Sequence.
Greenwitch
Cooper, Susan
New York: Margaret K. McElderberry Books, 1997.
Price: $200.00
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 First edition. 12mo. xliii, 172pp. Half title present. Contemporary speckled calf. Spine in 6 compartments, intricately gilt with red and green lettering labels, gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of a seminary library on the front pastedown with neat numbers in the lowest spine compartment. Hinges neatly and nearly invisibly repaired else a fine copy. Scarce scholarly treatise on the life of King Arthur from early, and notably Welsh, sources. Lowndes, p. 2100. New Arthurian Encyclopedia, pp. 404 and 409.
The Life of King Arthur: From Ancient Historians and Authentic Documents
Ritson, Joseph
London: Payne and Foss, 1825.
Price: $1,250.00
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The Vision of Sir Launfal
Lowell, James Russell
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., n.d., ca. 1916.
Price: $100.00
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 First edition. 12mo. (xii), 126pp. Original reddish cloth, gilt titles. Spine sunned else a very good copy of a very scarce work. Laid in is a handwritten letter to the author from Anthony Hope Hawkins, dated 20/5/95. Regarding this book, he says, 'I like it very much!...I think Tennyson was well entitled to alter the old story....But yours, following the old lines, is in a way more primitive in feeling....'
Mordred: A Tragedy
Newbolt, Henry
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895.
Price: $750.00
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Gareth and Lynette, Etc.
Tennyson, Alfred
London: Strahan & Co., 1872.
Price: $250.00
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The Poems of Ossian
Macpherson, James
Edinburgh: Macredie, Skelly & Muckersy, 1814.
Price: $125.00
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Spanish Grail Fragments
Pietsch, Karl, ed.
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1924.
Price: $350.00
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A Christmas Legend in King Arthur's Country: C. F. Holder
Warren, Arthur, aznd J. Leon Williams
1895.
Price: $75.00
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The Two Lost Centuries of Britain
Babcock, Wm. H.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1890.
Price: $175.00
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Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Le Bisclaveret
Marie de France
London: David Nutt, 1904.
Price: $75.00
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 First (only) edition. Tall 8vo. (iv),80pp. Original white cloth spine, gilt title; teal cloth boards in a fleur-de-lis weave. Top edge stained a light green. One of 500 copies, this one unnumbered. Neat gift inscription dated 1945, and neat ownership name on the front free endpaper, trace of sunning on the top of the upper board else a near fine copy. Blank verse in 25 parts based on Malory by the noted science fiction master. Scarce. Laid in is a folded page, signed by the author. The page is from the S. S. 'Albertic'; the folds do not affect the signature, and it is in fine condition. The 'Albertic' was originally launched as 'Munchen' in Bremen in 1920, but was ceded to Britain in the same year and sold to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. Renamed the 'Ohio' in 1923, it was acquired by White Star in 1927 and renamed 'Albertic'. It served only until 1930, thus allowing us to date the signature as likely contemporary with the Riding. A color print of the 'Albertic' is also enclosed.
The Riding of Lancelot
Wright, S. Fowler
London: Fowler Wright, Ltd., 1929.
Price: $600.00
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Idylls of the King
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (Lynd Ward)
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1952.
Price: $100.00
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 8vo. 12pp. Stapled in printed wraps. Illustrated. A very good copy with only a trace of soil and wear. With the 6 'Mentor Gravures' laid in, as issued. The gravures are full page stiff paper reproductions of Arthurian art, on the reverse of which is a quote from Tennyson and a discussion of the subject: Grail, Merlin, Galahad, etc. The Mentor was a periodical frequently distributed to schools. This is Vol. 6, No. 21. This issue contains a very goof overview of Arthur, with a short paragraph on the historical Arthur followed by the main text on the bardic and mythic Arthur.
King Arthur and the Round Table
Pyne, Francis Loring
NY: The Mentor Association, 1918.
Price: $45.00
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