Hardcover
1920 · London
by Malory, Sir Thomas; Russell Flint
London: Medici Society, 1920. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. Two volumes. xxx, 439, xix, (1), 531pp. Illustrated with full page plates by W. Russell Flint.
Finely bound by Birdsall in half brown morocco, brown linen cloth sides. Spines in 5 compartments with raised bands. Gilt. The compartment contains a gilt vignette of Caliburn held aloft by the Lady of the Lake. The original cloth covers are bound into volume 1. They have curled a bit on the mounting paper. Only a faint trace of wear but a fine set.
This is the two volume edition of the Flint's Mortre d'Arthur originally published in four volumes, vellum, in 1911. It was later printed in a one volume edition.
Birdsall & Son, Northampton, was one of the main bookbinding firms in Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In 1792 William Birdsall ([c. 1750]-1826) bought the bookselling and bookbinding business of John Lacy & Son in Northampton. It closed in 1961. The National Library of Wales holds its archives.
. (Inventory #: 23813)
Finely bound by Birdsall in half brown morocco, brown linen cloth sides. Spines in 5 compartments with raised bands. Gilt. The compartment contains a gilt vignette of Caliburn held aloft by the Lady of the Lake. The original cloth covers are bound into volume 1. They have curled a bit on the mounting paper. Only a faint trace of wear but a fine set.
This is the two volume edition of the Flint's Mortre d'Arthur originally published in four volumes, vellum, in 1911. It was later printed in a one volume edition.
Birdsall & Son, Northampton, was one of the main bookbinding firms in Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. In 1792 William Birdsall ([c. 1750]-1826) bought the bookselling and bookbinding business of John Lacy & Son in Northampton. It closed in 1961. The National Library of Wales holds its archives.
. (Inventory #: 23813)
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