New York: Metro Books, c. 2016. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 4to. 223,(1). Glossy pictorial boards, Blue endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color with 180 photographs, artworks and illustrations. Index. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. More about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table: Stories of Camelot and the Quest for the Holy Grail
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1691. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. (14),51,(1)pp. The half-title is present with its advertisement on the reverse. Also present are the Prologue and the Epilogue. The earliest copies lack these leaves, but an unsigned leaf was inserted after A4 headed "Prologue to the OPERA, Spoken by... More about King Arthur: Or, The British Worthy. A Dramatck Opera
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1898. First edition. Oblong folio. 95pp. Deep green cloth spine blocked in orange and gilt with the title and a representastion of excalibur; green paper bpards also blocked in orange and gilt. All edged gilt. Illustrated. Trace of sunning to the board papers else this... More about A Legend of Camelot, Pictures and Poems by George de Maurier
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xi,(3),390pp. Purple textured paper over boards, gilt spine title. With ten illustrations form mediaeval manuscripts. Index. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. More about The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes
New York: Routledge, 1998. First US edition. Softcover. 8vo. xxv, (8), 570pp. Printed wraps. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Ten pages at the very beginning have some ink notes and underlining, else this is a very good copy. A diverse collection of mediaeval Arthurian literature and history, form Latin... More about King Arthur in Legend and History
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2015. Illustrated by Jessie King. Limited edition. Very good. Facsimle of the first Jessie King edition of 1903. 8vo. cvii,(1),379,(1). Publisher's light blueleather imitating the orignal light bue cloth, blocked on the spine and upper board with illustrations by King in black and gilt. Top... More about The High History of the Holy Graal
London: Heorge G. Harrap & Co., 1917. First trade edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 120, [4] pp. With thirteen mounted color plates (included in pagination), and twenty-three pages of printed music. Copiously decorated with intertextual illustrations, initials, and borders throughout. These elements and the text printed in ochre and black. Contemporary... More about Aucassin & Nicolete
London: Heorge G. Harrap & Co., 1917. Limited edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, No. 115 of 125 numbered copies, signed by Evelyn Paul. Small quarto. 120, [4] pp. With thirteen mounted color plates (included in pagination), and twenty-three pages of printed music. Copiously decorated with intertextual illustrations, initials, and borders throughout... More about Aucassin & Nicolete (Signed
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
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, (1982). First US edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 191pp. Dark blue clothm gilt spine title. A fine copy. The dustwerapper is lightly rubbed else is near fine. Translation by Raymond J. Cormier of the 1968 work Crétien de Troyes, l'homme et l'oeuvre. Illustrated. More about Chrétien de Troyes: The Man and His Work
London: John Murray, 1818. Hardcover. Bound with: Prospectus and Specimen, London, 1818. Two parts in one. Stated second edition of Cantos I & II; first edition of Cantos III & IV. [ii], 61pp. Ads. Later calf spine, red lettering label, gilt; original marbled paper boards. Corners and edges lightly worn... More about Prospectus and Specimen of an Intended National Work...Relating to King Arthur and His Round Table
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1959). Illustrated by Henry C. Pitz. Limited edition. Hardcover. Translated by Lord Berners, edited by G. C. Macaulay, and with an introduction by Sidney Painter. 4to. 748pp. Binding of buckram, spine in red and gilt, upper board with spears blind embossed, and the remainder of... More about The Chronicles of England, France, Spain and Other Places Adjoining
London: Early English Text Society, 1864. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. viii,(1),19pp plus a single page glossary. Recent binding of quarter dark blue morocco, gilt spine title, deep blue sand-grain cloth. Inscribed by Furnivall on the half-title: 'The Rev. E. H. Knowles, with the Editor's compts. Octr. 20, 1864.' One of the... More about Arthur: A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the...
London: J. M. Dent, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 16 plates. Index. Blue cloth, gilt. Spine and spine gilt darkened, occasional foxing else a good copy. Landmark study of the richness of Arthurian lore in Italy. More about The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1952. With Six Engravings in Colour by Dorothea Braby. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 95,(1)pp. Bound in two types of cloth, one green the other rose, gilt spine titles and gilt emblem on the upper board, Top edge gilt. One of 360 numbered copies, of which this... More about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Prose Translation
London: J. Bowyer, et al. 1718. First edition in English. Hardcover. First edition in English. 8vo. (ii),cxi,(xvii),401,(lv)pp. In a lovely full morocco early twentieth century binding by the French Binders. spine in six compartments, gilt' gilt inner dentelles; all edges gilt. A fine copy. The errata page is present in..... More about The British History, Translated into English from the Latin of Jeffrey of Monmouth
London: Henry Denham, 1585. Hardcover. Three parts in one. Small 8vo. (14)284,(6)pp. 18th century calf; spine in 6 comparments, gilt. Large printer's devices on each of the three title pages. The first part is an abridgement of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum by Virunio, a native of Treviso. He abridged... More about Britannicae Historicae Libri Sex .... Itinerarum Cambriae .... Cambriae Descriptio
Edinburgh: T. C. and E. C. Jack, 1911. Illustrated by Walter Crane. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xi,367pp. Sixteen color plates by Crane. Gray cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, illustrated endpapers. Top edge gilt. Spine browned, boards generally soiled, gilt rubbed. The binding is only fair. The textblock is near fine. More about King Arthur's Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys and Girls
London: T. Cotes for William Cooke, 1638. First edition in English. Hardcover. 12mo. (134),327pp. Full calf. Contemporary boards rebacked. Engraved frontispiece of Gildas by William Marshall. First edition in English, translated from the Latin by Thomas Habington. Early handwritten notes on the front blanks. Bookplate. Preliminary blanks are rough at... More about The Epistle of Gildas, the Most Ancient British Author: Who Flourished in the Yeere of our Lord, 546
Londini: Typis Gulielmi Bulmer et Socii, 1806. Hardcover. 4to. xxxii,237,(6)pp. Engraved frontispiece, three full page engraved plates, and a large hand-colored folding map. Contemporary full calf binding; spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt, gilt title, gilt rules on the boards and gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. With the... More about Itinerarium Cambriae seu Laboriosae Baldvini Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi per Walliam Legatonis...
London: Printed for William Miller, 1806. First edition in English. Hardcover. Large 4to. 2 vols. (12),cxcii,220,(4);(6),440,(4)pp. Indices. Complete with 59 engraved plates (including a hand-colored folding map) and a second large, hand-colored folding map at rear of Vol. II. Old calf over marbled boards (rubbed), tips worn. Spines in 6... More about The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales , A. D. MCLXXXVIII; Translated into English,...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxix,(1),132pp. Cloth spine gilt title, drab green paper over boards, top edge gilt. Light wear and a crease to the spine, a few pencil marginalia, else a very good coy. The is the French original of a lost Elizabethan translation... More about The Tale of Gargantua and King Arthur
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, (1981). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 186pp. Index. Brown cloth, gilt spine, A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper. Arthurian Studies II, More about The Alliterative Morte Arthure
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. xxviii, 386pp. Index, select but extensive bibliography. Fine in dj. I The history of the Grail, from proto-Christianity through the Knights Templar, Arthur & Merlin, Crusades, Inquisition to present day Languedoc. Includes list of medieval grail texts... More about The Holy Grail
New York: Franklin Watts, 1986. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 406pp. 11 illus., including 7 maps; extensive bibliography, index. Fine in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper. Scholarly examination of literary, historical, archeological & linguistic proofs for King Arthur & friends. Later printing but inscribed by the author to Kenneth C. Clark. More about King Arthur
