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Lancelot & Elaine: being the eighth to the twentieth chapters of the eighteenth book of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le morte d’Arthur.
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: Hague & Gill. June 1948. Hardcover. 24mo (6” x 4.5”), decorative paper over boards, printed paper title label at front cover. Deckled edges. [vi], 76 pp., [3], 3 vignette wood-engravings (title vignette in red) and 2 full page engravings. Chapter headings and initials in red. Bookplate of “Wyman Parker” at front pastedown. CONDITION: Good, spine sunned, moderate wear to covers, some brown stains at pastedowns and endpapers. First edition thus. The colophon states that “two hundred copies have been printed by Hague & Gill, at Pigotts, Near High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, June 1948.” Though some allege that there was an accident at the Hague & Gill printing press that caused all but 25 copies to be destroyed, we have located 29 copies of this edition held in libraries worldwide. Wyman Parker was a librarian at Wesleyan University, librarian at the Bread Loaf School of English, and a collector of fine press books.
Item #9035
Price: $350.00
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