Lot 39
Shakespeare Head Press
The Noble and Joyous Boke Entytled le Morte Darthur
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
… by the well dysposyd knyghte Syr Thomas Malory. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1933. One of 370 copies, 2 volumes, 4to, original red full morocco, spines lettered in gilt, top edges rough gilt, others untrimmed, half-title and title-pages printed in red and black, headings and initials in red, vignette chapter headings from the woodcuts used in Wynkyn de Worde's edition of 1498. volume 2 with scuff to spine (2)
Footnote
Copies were also issued in a standard binding of half morocco.