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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, hol
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