Le Morte Darthur
Artist: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (British, 1872 - 1898)
Publisher: J. M. Dent, London, 1893 (vol. 1) and 1894 (vol. 2)
Printer: Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh
Author: Sir Thomas Malory (British, 1410?-1471?)
Date: 1893-1894
Medium: Original prints: 2 photogravures (frontispieces)
Reproductions: line block reproductions of ink drawings (vignettes, headpieces, tailpieces, initials, borders, and full-page)
Text: letterpress
Paper: cream laid paper
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1952.67A-B
Label Text:2 volumes illustrated with numerous full-page plates, decorations and vignettes on almost every page after drawings; etched frontispiece in each volume. One of the edition of 1800 in original clothe binding (with gilt decoration)
The imaginative illustrations the young Beardsley devised for the story of the birth, life, and death of King Arthur and the noble knights of his round table were deemed a great success shortly after the book was published.
Beardsley's exotic stylization, as exemplified by the decorations in these volumes, was a crowning achievement of 1890s art nouveau pictorial design.
The imaginative illustrations the young Beardsley devised for the story of the birth, life, and death of King Arthur and the noble knights of his round table were deemed a great success shortly after the book was published.
Beardsley's exotic stylization, as exemplified by the decorations in these volumes, was a crowning achievement of 1890s art nouveau pictorial design.
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