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Title(s):
Morte Arthure : the alliterative romance of the death of King Arthur : now first printed from a manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral / edited by James Orchard Halliwell ...
Additional Title(s):
Morte Arthure.
Published/Created:
Brixton Hill [London] : [C. and J. Adlard, Printer], 1847.
Physical Description:
xxii, 368 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR2065 M3 H3 1847+ Oversize
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Illustration by Frederick William Fairholt.
Title on spine reads: The romance of The Morte Arthur.
British Art Center copy is no. [29] of those printed on thin paper and is signed C. & J. Adlard.
"The manuscript ... was compiled by Robert Thornton ... He cannot be assigned as the author with any degree of certainty, but must rather be merely considered the copyist." Preface.
"Limited to seventy-five copies. viz. twenty-five copies on thick paper, and fifty copies on thin ..."
Subject Terms:
Adlard, C. and J. -- Printer.
Etching -- Specimens -- 1847.
Contributors:
Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889.
Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866, engraver.
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