1922 Rare Book - The Boy's King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.
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Author: Sir Thomas Malory. Sidney Lanier, editor. (N. C. Wyeth, illustrator).
Title: The Boy's King Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table.
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, no date (1922).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 9 " X 7 ".
Pages: 321 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original illustrated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean. rare light foxing - as shown, light crease to the first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with all the 9 wonderful full-page illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.
The book: Attractive N.C. Wyeth illustrated edition of The Boy's King Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table.
The illustrator: Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books — 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the body of work for which he is best known. The first of these, Treasure Island, was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a realist painter at a time when the camera and photography began to compete with his craft. Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly. Wyeth, who was both a painter and an illustrator, understood the difference, and said in 1908, "Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other."
He is the father of Andrew Wyeth and the grandfather of Jamie Wyeth, both well-known American painters.