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[BINDING –– RIVIERE]. MALORY, Thomas, Sir (1400–1470). Le Morte d’Arthur: The History of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table. London: Jonathan Cape and the Medici Society Ltd., [1927].
Royal 8vo. Numerous color plates including frontispiece, title–page printed in blue and black. Full contemporary green levant with ornamental gilt border, black and citron morocco inalys of heraldic shield designs at corners, upper cover with a central pictorial design in various color morocco inlays of a woman shooting a bow with a quiver of arrows, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt–lettering in two, lettered devices in remainder, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, turn–ins of gilt filets and cornerpieces, GILT STAMP–SIGNED BY RIVIERE & SONS (spine gently sunned, a bit of discoloration to gilt fore–edge at last few leaves).
A sumptuous binding executed by one of the leading binderies in London during the 19th and 20th centuries.