London: E, Moxon, Son, and Co., n.d. Engraving. Folio. Nine plates with tissue guards from the Moxon edition. A couple of short closed marginal tears else a very good set and suitable for framing. More about Loose plates from The Legend of Merlin and Vivien
St Paul: Llewellyn Worldwide, n.d. Boxed set containing a complete full-color 78 card deck and a 304 page book. The 78 watercolor paintings of the set illustrate characters, places and tales from the stories which blend traditional Tarot symbolism with the Pagan and Christian symbolism that are significant elements... More about Legend: The Arthurian Tarot
Vienna/France: Piatnik/France Cartes, ca 1950/1986. Two complete decks of Arthurian playing cards. The first is a single complete deck of cards (originally issued as a dual deck) issued by Piatnik of Vienna ca. 1950, their number 21450. Gunther (spades), Amfortas (clubs), Roland (hearts) and Arthur (diamonds). Very good condition; no... More about Arthurian Playing Cards, with Les Chvaliers de la Table Ronde Playing Cards
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1900. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth blocked in dark red and gilt. 3 volumes in one. 256, 256 and 255pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Generally lightly worn and soiled and the spine darkened; we note a short closed marginal tear on the margin of... More about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table; A Modernized Version of the "Morte Darthur"
London: David Nutt, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Original black cloth, blocked in gilt. Endpapers foxed, text block toned, inner hinge cracked else a very good copy. Bookplate. Considered a landmark of Grail studies. More about Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail, With Especial Reference to the Hypothesis of its Celtic...
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1973. Hardcover. 3 volumes. 8vo. The second printing of the second edition, with corrections and additions. Blue cloth, gilt spine labels. A fine set. More about The Works of Sir Thomas Malory
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1941. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. (xii), 101pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board. Illustrated. Cloth significantly and unevenly faded else a good copy. Second impression. The first printing was in 1940. More about Arthurian Romance and Modern Poetry and Music
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. Hardcover. Contemporary half polished calf, spine in six compartments, gilt; marbled paper boards and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Tennyson. Light rubbing to the binding else this is in very good condition. Contains, of course, The Idyls of the Klieg. More about The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate`
London: George C. Harrap & Co., 1910. Hardcover. 8vo. xix, (1), 236pp. Quiarter polished calf. Spine in six compartments, gilt. Tan cloth boards. London prize award gilt seal on the upper board. London County Council bookplate awarding this to Lily Fosten for Drawing. Illustrated. Lightly soiled and rubbed. More about Stories of King Arthur
London: `David Nutt, 1902-1906. Hardcover. 12mo. 46; 80; 80pp. Contemporary green cloth, gilt spine title. Tape residue at base of spine else in very good condition. Three works bound together. The first is the second edition, revised. The second, the Mabinogion, is bound without title page; and the third is... More about King Arthur and his Knights: A Survey of Arthurian Romance; The Mabinogion; The Legends of the...
London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1859. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 261pp. Green ribbed cloth, gilt spine, boards embossed in blind. Yellow coated endpapers. With ads dated July, 1859 inserted between the front endpapers and with the reverse of the title page blank. Some fading and wear to the cloth else... More about Idylls of the King
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth printed in deep red. Small ink scribble on the front free endpaper, light soil else this is a very good copy. The dustwrapper is not price clipped. There is a bit of roughness along the edges and... More about Gambit: A Nero Wolfe Novel
Rome: Typis Regiae Officinae Polygraphicae, 1937, 15 Fascist. Wraps. 8vo. 97pp Printed wraps. Illustrated with photographs. Light wear to edges and hinges, spine repaired, else this is a very good coy. Benito Mussolini ordered, inter alia, a resurgence of classical Latin and Greek literature. Augustus Caesar had his deeds, or... More about Res Gestae Divi Augusti...Jussu Beniti Mussolini
London: Macmillan and Co., 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Cloth spine, printed title label, blue paper over boards. Engraved frontispiece of Morris, with tissue guard. 177,(3)pp. Index. Extra title label bound in at the read. A very good copy showing only light wear. With the bookplate of H. L. Doolittle of Pasadena. More about The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-Craftsman
London: The Holland Press, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. 224pp. Green cloth, gilt spine. Illustrated. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is also fine and unclipped. The first edition was published in 1897. More about The Books of William Morris
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xx, 420pp. Illustrated from the manuscript. Red cloth, printed paper spine label. Label a little scuffed, neat presentation on the front free endpaper, else a near fine copy, The dustwrapper is worn and soiled but still presentable. The... More about Sir Lancelot of the Lake
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1914). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. ix,(3),396pp. Bibliography, Indexes. Green ribbed cloth, gilt spine title, blind embossing on the upper board. Ink ownership name of Ethel Wood. Ink underlining and notes in the same hand, else this is a very good copy. More about The Chief Middle English Poets
Gottigen: Vandenhoech & Ruprecht, 1928. Hardcover. Second edition. 2 vols. With a supplement by Alfons Hilka. Indices. Extensive bibliography. Important and elusive. Original printed cloth, lightly soiled and sunned. A few early pp. in Vol. I have light pencil underlining. A very good set. More about The Evolution of the Arthurian Romance from the Beginnings down to the Year 1300
London: Sheed & Ward, 1942. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 214pp. Blue-green cloth, printed spine title. The blue-green of the cloth has faded to tan on the spine and on parts of the boiard. Text block is very goodm but the binding is only good because of the fading... More about For Hilaire Belloc: Essays in Honour of His 72nd Birthday
London: E, Moxon, Son, and Co., n.d. Hardcover. Folio. Green cloth blocked in black on the spine, black and gilt on the upper board, and blind on the lower board. Brown coated endpapers. Nine illustrations by Doré. Front inner hinge repaired, spine tips and corners worn else this is a...... More about The Story of Elaine, The Lily Maid of Astolat. From the Arthurian Legends Collected by Sir Thomas...
London: Early English Text Society, 1871. Hardcover. 8vo. xix,(1),208pp. Contemporary tan buckram, gilt spine title. Original wraps bound in. A very good copy. Edited form Robert Thornton's Manuscript in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral, This is the Alliterative Morte Darthur, dating from the latter 14th or early 15th centuries. A new..... More about Morte Arthure or the Death of Arthur
London: Methuen & Co., 1904. Hardcover. 12mo. 184pp. Green cloth spine, gilt titles; paper over boards with a vignette in gllt on the upper board. Photograph of Wagner as frontispiece. Worn with the boards soiled; a good copy only. More about Parsifal Lohengrin and The Legend of the Holy Grail; Described and Interpreted in Accordance with...
London: David Nutt, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. Green cloth spines, gilt. Drab paper over boards. Titles printed in red and black. Some red pencil underlining in the early part of volume one, boards faded, edges and corners worn else a very good set. Bookplate of former owner... More about The Legend of Sir Perceval
London: The Folio Society, 1982. 1st Folio ed. Hardcover. 3 volumes, bound in royal blue relay cloth blocked in red and gilt with a design by the artist. A fine set. Printed paper slipcase in a design by the artist, fine. The Tale of King Arthur; Sir Tristam de Lyonesse;... More about Chronicles of King Arthur
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1966. First English edition. Hardcover. Map eps. Blue buckram, gilt spine title. 379pp. Textblock edges a little dusty from age else this is a near fine copy. The dustwerapper is price-clipped, has 2 closed marginal tears on the back panel and is darkened on the spine... More about Avalon
