[Children’s & Illustrated] Rackham, Arthur The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

London: Macmillan and Co, Limited, 1917. Deluxe edition, #290/500 copies signed and numbered by Rackham. 4to. Illustrated with 16 mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards, 70 black and white drawings in text, and black and white head- and tail-pieces. Abridged from Malory’s Morte D’Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard. Bound in full crimson levant with multi-colored leather onlay of Sir Lancelot slaying the dragon at the center of the front cover; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; by Chris Lewis; in burgundy cloth and plush-lined fall-down-back box. A near-fine copy with negligible wear. Latimore and Haskell, p. 47; Riall, p. 130.

Known for his onlay and gilt work, Chris Lewis began his career at the renowned Bayntun-Riviere Bindery in Bath then established his own bindery there in the 1970s. The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer.