B57 LE MORTE D’ARTHUR [1962]

Sir Thomas Malory’s | [in white, in a black band, in mock-Celtic type:] LE MORTE D’ARTHUR | King Arthur and the | Legends of the Round Table | A RENDITION IN MODERN IDIOM BY|[in Gothic:] Keith Baines | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | [in Gothic:] Robert Graves | DECORATIVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY ENRICO ARNO | [at left:] [publisher’s emblem] | Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. | Publisher | New York

Collation: [1]–[16]16, 256 leaves.

p.[i][in Gothic:] Le Morte d’Arthur; p.[ii] cut of castle, ladies and two knights jousting; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] copyright, rights reservation, LC card and printing notices; p.[v] [in Gothic:] For Anna; p.[vi] cut of knight with raised sword; pp.vii–viii preface; pp.ix–xx [in Gothic:] Introduction; pp.21–507 text and illustrations; pp.508–512 [in Gothic:] Appendix.

23.5 × 15.5 cm. Bulk: 2.3/2.9 cm. White wove paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in brick-red cloth; front and back blank; spine printed in black: [down spine, in Gothic:] Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte d’Arthur | [remainder upright:] [publisher’s emblem] | Clarkson N. | Potter

Price: $6.00 Number of copies undisclosed. Published in July 1962 in tan cream wove dust-jacket printed in black and brown.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is the introduction (pp.xi–xx).

Previous editions of this bibliography described the Bramall House reprint of B57. Bramhall House is a division of Clarkson N. Potter.

An English impression of this book was published by George G. Harrap & Company, London in 1963.