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 x 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.)
XXIV. Original study, approved by the publisher, for wrappers of serial
issue of the "Morte Darthur," yellowish green water-colour on
white paper, 10-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches. This design, comprising
lilies, differs from that which was finally produced by the
artist and published (next item). (Property of Aymer Vallance,
Esq.) 1893.
Design for wrappers of serial issue, in black on grey paper, in
two states, the earlier or trial-state, having blank spaces for
the lettering, only the title being given as "La Mort Darthure."
XXV. Design in gold on cream-white cloth cases of the bound volumes.
Nineteen of the above designs were republished in "A Book of
Fifty Drawings," and again in "Later Work," including full-size
reproductions of the following, which had suffered through
excessive reduction in the published "Morte Darthur."
XXVI. Merlin (in a circle), facing list of illustrations in Vol. I. The
same reproduced in _The Idler_, March 1897.
XXVII. Vignette of Book I., chapter xiv. Landscape with piper in a meadow
and another figure in the sky.
XXVIII. Vignette of Book III., chapter iii. Three swans swimming.
XXIX. Vignette of Book V., chapter x. Nude woman rising out of the sea,
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