Beardsley’s »Morte Darthur Portfolio«, with 11 drawings not in 1st ed., 1927

Aubrey Beardsley: The Morte Darthur Portfolio. Reproductions of Eleven Designs Omitted from the First Edition of Le Morte Darthur Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley and published in MDCCCXCIII. Also Those Made for the Covers of the Issue in Parts and a Facsimile Print of the Merlin drawing. With a Foreword by Aymer Vallance and a Note on the Omitted Designs by Rainforth Armitage Walker. With 14 plates as well as nine vignettes and initials after wood engravings by A. B. London: J. M. Dent & Sons (Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh), 1927.

4to. [2 (front fly leaf with colophon verso], 45 [3], [2, rear fly leaf] pages. Letterpress and cliché. Original publisher's half calf with gilt embossed spine title and gilt top edge, as well as vellum boards, the front board tooled in gilt with Beardsley's iconic water lily design.

No. 221 of 300 copies on „Millbourne British Hand Made Pure Rag“, numbered with stamp in the colophon.

Condition: Vellum boards minimally bent up towards corners and minimally worn, otherwise nearly fine copy.

Reference: Gaines, A14 c.1.b.