1911 Idylls of the King, Vellum Edition de Luxe, Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale Illustrations

An absolutely beautiful limited edition, full vellum-bound copy of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London in 1911. Numbered 182 of only 350 copies and signed by the artist Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (see photos). Gilt medieval inspired Pre-Raphaelite influenced decoration to front and spine. Heavy art paper has twenty tipped-in Brickdale illustrations. The decoration and artwork are perfectly matched to Tennyson's Arthurian cycle. This is a striking large and heavy volume, produced to a high quality.

Opens with the tipped-in colour frontispiece and further colour plates as called for. Each with their original tissue guards and with ornate gilt borders. Some tanning and offsetting to the endpapers as is common with this edition. No writing or inscriptions. The endpapers have the same golden Excalibur decoration as on the front. The top edge is gilt, other sides untrimmed.

The vellum boards have mildly bowed and there is some dark spotting to the top front right (see close-up photos). Some darkening in a few areas, and darkening also to the spine. The gilt has remained in bright condition on the front and spine. This deluxe edition would have originally had cloth ties attached to the panels to keep the book closed and this copy no longer has those.

An absolutely lovely book.

Your antique vellum-bound copy of The Idylls of the King will be wrapped with great care in tissue and ribbon* and sent well packaged with tracking and insurance. I am always happy to add a gift card with a message to the parcel.

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PLEASE NOTE DIMENSIONS of this large book: H 32 cm x W 26 cm, 2.6 kg, 174 pages. I dispatch worldwide daily from the UK. (There are just a very few countries which I am unable to ship to).

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