MALORY, Thomas (1416-71) & Aubrey BEARDSLEY (1872-98, illustrator). The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur, New York, 1927, 4to, illustrations, buckram, DUST-JACKET, third edition, ONE OF 1,600 COPIES. With 3 works in 4 vols., and another jacket. (6)

MALORY, Thomas (1416-71) & Aubrey BEARDSLEY (1872-98, illustrator).  The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1927. 4to (294 x 225mm). Etched frontispiece, woodcut illustrations including four full-page, ornamental borders and initials, by Aubrey Beardsley. Original dark blue buckram gilt with decorations designed by Aubrey Beardsley, top edges gilt, others uncut, with the dust-jacket after a design by Beardsley (the jacket with a few tears without loss and some fraying at the corners). Provenance: Fonnie E. Davis (bookplate). A FINE COPY of the third edition, in its RARE dust-jacket. ONE OF 1,600 COPIES. With 3 other related works in 4 volumes, namely the same author's The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur (London, 1893, 2 vols., 4to, illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, original decorated tan buckram gilt, ONE OF 1,800 COPIES), The Birth, Life and Acts of King Arthur (London, 1909, 4to, illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, original decorated green buckram gilt, the second edition, ONE OF 1,500 COPIES) and Reproductions of Eleven Designs Omitted from the First Edition of Le Morte Darthur illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley (London, 1927, original vellum gilt, NUMBER 145 OF 300 COPIES); together with a dust-jacket for the work for the J. M. Dent & Sons (London) edition of 1927 (the book not present). (6)