Buy this book on-line JOAN HASSALL. Sir Thomas Mallory : Lancelot and Elaine. Being the Eighth to the Twentieth Chapters of the Eighteenth Book of Sir Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte Darthur'. With engravings by Joan HassallPrinted by Rene Hague and Eric Gill, Pigotts, near High Wycombe,, 1948
The first edition with these illustrations. Small 8vo. 68pp. Red leather with gilt lettering and a blind-stamped border to the upper board. With a title page decoration, printed in red, a half-title vignette and two full-page engravings (other copies appear to include a total of five engravings, but this one only includes four, although the two full-page plates are present, as required). The text printed in red and black, and following exactly that printed by William Caxton in 1845, with the misprints not corrected. A touch of wear to the extremities of the leather. Former owner name and date neatly inked in red to the front free endpaper. Very good indeed. Laid-in is an Eric Gill-designed bookplate, created in 1915 for Joseph Thorp's Decoy Press. The colophon states that 200 copies were printed, but in fact the book was never published, Rene Hague being dissatisfied with the quality of the printing; however some sets of sheets were given away if they deemed satisfactory, in all perhaps twenty to twenty-five sets, none of which were bound at the press.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of JOAN HASSALL. Sir Thomas Mallory : Lancelot and Elaine. Being the Eighth to the Twentieth Chapters of the Eighteenth Book of Sir Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte Darthur'. With engravings by Joan Hassall. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, livres illustrées, antiquarian books, out-of-print books and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |