59. LE MORTE DARTHUR, by Sir Thomas Malory. J. M. Dent & Co. 300 copies on Dutch hand-made paper and 1500 ordinary copies. Issued in Parts, beginning June 1893.
I. Vol. I., 1893. Frontispiece--"How King Arthur saw the Questing Beast, and thereof had great marvel." Photogravure.
II. Merlin taketh the child Arthur into his keeping. (Reduced reproduction in _Idler_, May 1898.)
III. The Lady of the Lake telleth Arthur of the sword Excalibur.
VI. How four queens found Launcelot sleeping. (Property of A. E. Gallatin, Esq.)
VII. Sir Launcelot and the witch Hellawes. (Property of A. E. Gallatin, Esq.)
VIII. How la Beale Isoud nursed Sir Tristram.
IX. How Sir Tristram drank the love drink.
X. How la Beale Isoud wrote to Sir Tristram.
XI. How King Mark found Sir Tristram sleeping.
XII. How Morgan le Fay gave a sword to Sir Tristram.
XIII. Vol. II., 1894. Frontispiece--"The achieving of the Sangreal." Photogravure. (This was the first design executed for the work.)
Full page and double page illustrations:--
XIV. How King Mark and Sir Dinadan heard Sir Palomides making great sorrow and mourning for la Beale Isoud (double page).
XV. La Beale Isoud at Joyous Gard (double page).
XVI. How Sir Launcelot was known by Dame Elaine (full page).
XVII. How a devil in woman's likeness would have tempted Sir Bors (double page).
XVIII. How Queen Guenever rode on maying (double page).
XIX. How Sir Bedivere cast the sword Excalibur into the water (full page).
XX. How Queen Guenever made her a nun (full page).
In the two volumes there are altogether 548 ornaments, chapter-headings, borders, initials, tail-pieces, etc.; but some of them are repetitions of the same design, others reproductions of the same design in two different sizes. (Two of these are in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Eight belong to Pickford Waller, Esq. Others are the property of Hon. Gerald Ponsonby, R. C. Greenleaf, Esq., W. H. Jessop, Esq., M. H. Sands, Esq., Robert Ross, Esq., and Messrs Carfax & Co.)
XXI. Chapter-heading, a dragon, with conventional foliage spray branching into marginal ornaments; printed, but not published in the book.
XXII. Initial letter J with guardian griffins; pen-and-ink, 5-1/2 × 3-1/2 inches.
XXIII. Unfinished border design, first published in "Whistler's Art Dicta and Other Essays" by A. E. Gallatin (Boston, U.S.A., and London, 1903). (Property of A. E. Gallatin, Esq.)