BOOK DESCRIPTION: EDMUND WARD, LEICESTER, PUBLISHED IN 1951, 2ND EDITION, HARDBACK WITH DUSTCOVER; "KING ARTHUR OF BRITAIN - FROM SIR THOMAS MALORY'S MORTE D'ARTHUR", ARRANGED BY BRIAN KENNEDY COOKE, AND ILLUMINATED IN THE STYLE OF EARLY ENGLISH MINIATURES BY ANTHONY RADO. 

BOOK CONDITION: RED CLOTH BOARDS, WITH GILT LETTERING TO SPINE, IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, MINOR BUMPING TO ENDS, BUT NO OTHER OBVIOUS FAULTS; DUSTCOVER, IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED, IN ACCEPTABLE CONDITION, SEVERAL AREAS OF WEAR WITH CHIPS AND TEARS, SPINE IS FADED (PLEASE SEE PHOTOGRAPHS FOR MORE DETAILS); PAGES ARE IN GOOD CONDITION, CLOSED EDGES ARE MILDLY FOXED, BUT INTERNALLY THEY ARE STILL VERY SOUND, CLEAN AND GENERALLY BRIGHT.

BOOK CONTENTS: THE STORY OF KING ARTHUR OF BRITAIN AND HIS FELLOWSHIP HAS BEEN WRITTEN AND REWRITTEN FOR MANY CENTURIES, EACH NEW WRITER ADDING HIS OWN EMBELLISHMENTS AND GRAFTING UPON THE MATERIAL AT HIS DISPOSAL THE MANNERS AND HABITS OF HIS OWN TIME. IN ALL THE LONG HISTORY OF THE ARTHURIAN ROMANCES, SIR THOMAS MALLORY'S STANDS ALONE AND SUPREME. BUT MALORY IS OVERLONG FOR MANY READERS, AND IN THIS VOLUME BRIAN KENNEDY COOKE HAS SET DOWN ONLY THOSE PARTS OF THE STORY THAT CONCERN KING ARTHUR HIMSELF.