• Thomas Malory and Alfred W. Pollard, The romance of King Arthur and his knights of the Round table. Abridged from Malory’s Morte D’Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (New York: Macmillan, 1917).

Here too, a famous children’s illustrator takes on an abridged version of Malory’s Morte. Arthur Rackham (1867 - 1939) was the most successful of those book artists who fed the contemporary market for gift books- the original paintings for his colour plates were often sold separately at the time of publication. We display here a copy of the first American edition of this work; there was also a deluxe British edition, larger and limited to 500 copies.