Oak Grove, MN: MIchael E. Coughlin, 2019. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 32pp. Black cloth spine, red cloth boards, printed label on the upper board, deep red endpapers. Finely printed by Michael E. Coughlin on a Kluge platen press on Mohawsk Superfine Eggshell paper. The typeface is Garamond, and the..... More
Birmingham: Birmingham School of Printing, 1934. First edition. Stiff card wraps. 4to. (43),(1)pp. Finely printed in black, red and blue under the direction of Leonard Jay at the City of Birmingham School of Printing. Printed by students in the Letterpress Machine classes. Set in Garamond. Illustrated with wood engravings by..... More
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Very good. Folio. Steel engraved frontispiece and eight steel-engraved plates with tissue guards. Pleasantly bound in full scarlet morocco, the spine in seven compartments, gilt, with raised bands. The boards with gilt borders, titles, and an inner gilt rectangle with..... More
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Very good. Folio. Steel engraved frontispiece and eight steel-engraved plates with tissue guards. Cobalt blue publisher's cloth over beveled boards, the upper board elaborately decorated in gilt and black. The illustrations were reprinted in 1869 as part of the Idylls..... More
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. State A, but bound in blue cloth instead of black. The boards blind-stamped with a floral border enclosing an arabesque floral design. The spine is stamped in gilt and blind. At the top is an angel holding the Grail, followed..... More
Boston: Curtis & Cameron, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 126pp. Red ribbed cloth; gilt tile on spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. A prose description of Abbey's frieze in the Boston Public Library. Cloth unevenly sunned on the board and spine gilt darkened else a very good copy. Laid..... More
Boston: Curtis & Cameron, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Illustrations from the frieze in the Boston Public Library by Edwin Austin Abbey. 26 Illustrations finely printed on tissue and mounted on guards. Text by Ferris Greenslet. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Cloth worn at edges and..... More
London: Folio Society, 2002. Hardcover. Third printing. Three volumes. Green buckram spines blocked in gilt; glossy paper boards with an illustration of Arthur and the sword in the stone in the foreground. A fine set. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. More
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press and published by the Press for Basil Blackwell, 1933. Limited edition. Fine. 4to. Two volumes. (4),xxviii,316;(4)273,(3)pp. One of 370 copies on handmade paper (of which 350 are for sale), this being copy number 56. One of the few copies bound in full brick-red morocco. Printed..... More
London, et al: Rider & Co., n.d., ca. 1940's. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt spine title. Illustrated with 11 plates and 3 drawings. Index. 198pp. Covers magic arfts among the Celts; Druids; Spells & Charms; Spirit World; Necromancy; the Cult of Arthur; the Mystery of the Grail; and Second Sight..... More
New York and Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co., (1904). First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 101pp plus 9pp of ads. Gray buckram, gilt spine title, upper board blocked in giult and red with a representation of the grail. Frontispiece. Light soil, spine darkened, but a very good copy. More
London: Longmans, 1929. Hardcover. Index. 16 photographs of hitherto unread manuscripts. The first Latin text taken direct from the earliest manuscripts together with the first literal translation of a parallel Welsh Chronicle. With a discussion of Geoffrey's Native Sources and the Ancient British Book which he claimed that he translated..... More
New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxvi, 300pp. White cloth printed in black on the spine and upper board. A fine copy. Poetry from 1835 to 1956. More
St. Petersburg: Nikodim, 2019. Limited edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Dmitry Sayenko. Limited edition. Folio. 32pp. Red leather spine and edges, marbled paper boards, the upper boards impressed with an engraving of Camelot and with a title label printed in red. Thirteen scenes covering the Age of Arthur in sonnet form..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Textured paper over boards, gilt spine title A fine copy. The dustwrapper shows the original 16s price. It has a little wear along the edges, a short closed marginal tear along the top rear, and a trace of foxing on the..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Second impression. Original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed. Small illustrations in the text by the author, endpapers illustrated by Robert Lawson. Some paperclip marks on the half-title, else a fine..... More
London: David Nutt, 1889-91. Hardcover. First critical edition. 4to. Three volumes in two, uniformly bound. xviii, 861,(3); 230, 2); 338(2)pp. Publisher's quarter leather, gilt spine titles, top edges gilt. Cloth boards. Volume One contains the facsimile of Caxton's edition; Volume Two contains Sommer's notes, glossary and bibliography of the Morte..... More
London: The Scolar Press, 1976. Limited edition. Hardcover. Three volumes, 4to. Issued in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the introduction of printing into England by William Caxton. Each volume is bound in full calf in period-style by the Eddington Bindery. Spines in five compartments with raised bands. Titles..... More
Norwalk: Easton Press, 2011. Hardcover. Five volumes. 8vo. Black leather blocked in blue and gilt; all edges gilt; moiré silk endpapers; ribbon bookmarks. A fine, new set still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Volume 2 is signed by the author. Susan Cooper's masterful fantasy set in England and Wales, incorporating English and..... More
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1877. Hardcover. 4to. Red leather spine, gilt; marbled paper boards; chocolate colored endpapers, top edge gilt. xx,504pp. Engraved vignettes. Light rubbing to the leather, edges of the boards are worn, but still this is a very good copy. The second edition of Lady Charlotte Guest's translation from..... More
