{"title":"Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiterary fiction and novels from the Breething Books catalog. Each listing records the edition, printing, condition and any signatures or inscriptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003e\u003cu\u003eAbout this collection \u0026amp; related links\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/summary\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse literary fiction and novels in the Breething Books catalog. Individual listings distinguish the edition and printing offered and record signatures, inscriptions and condition when present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContinue with \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/first-editions\"\u003eFirst Editions\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/signed\"\u003eSigned Books\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/new-arrivals\"\u003eNew Arrivals\u003c\/a\u003e. 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M. Dent \u0026amp; Co., 1893–94.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, complete in the original twelve separately issued parts\u003c\/strong\u003e, preserving Beardsley’s great Arthurian masterpiece in the scarce form in which it was first published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwelve parts, quarto, in the original blue-gray pictorial wrappers decorated after Beardsley, with full-page and double-page illustrations, ornamental borders, decorated initials, chapter headings, head- and tail-pieces, and hundreds of additional designs throughout. Housed in protective slipcases.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe Morte Darthur\u003c\/em\u003e was \u003cstrong\u003eAubrey Beardsley’s first major commission and the work that established his reputation at barely twenty years of age\u003c\/strong\u003e. Commissioned by J. M. Dent as an answer to the elaborate productions of William Morris and the Kelmscott Press, the project occupied Beardsley for approximately eighteen months and resulted in an extraordinary body of graphic work: two photogravure frontispieces, eighteen full-page wood-engravings—including five double-page compositions—and approximately \u003cstrong\u003e350 designs for borders, initials, headings and decorations\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations represent the emergence of the unmistakable visual language now associated with Beardsley: dense black-and-white contrasts, sinuous line, Japanese influence, grotesque fantasy and a distinctly modern reinterpretation of medieval imagery. 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