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Jun 21, 2023 · With her 1911 purchase of the only complete copy of William Caxton’s printed edition of Le Morte d’ Arthur, her fate as one of the most prominent special collections librarians was sealed. Her professional papers document this journey, giving us a first-hand account of the rise of Belle da Costa Greene from J.P. Morgan’s librarian to ...
Hoe sale continues; Morgan pays $42,800 for copy of Le Morte d'Arthur, printed by Caxton; A Hoe buys 15th century Horae (Pembroke Hoars) for $33,000; other works that sold for $500 or...
A few years later she won at auction the only surviving complete copy of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, printed by William Caxton, in the process outbidding a rival collector, Henry E. Huntington. This acquisition made front page news across the globe and marked Greene’s entry as a force in the rare book world.
Caxton's edition, the tale of Arthur's war against the Emperor Lucius appeared to have been abridged by more than half.2 The publication by Eugene Vinaver in 1947 of the Morte Darthur
Dec 4, 2008 · Yesterday’s Times reported the news that J. Pierpont Morgan was the likely purchaser of Lord Amherst’s set of “sixteen Caxtons” — books published by the first English printer, William Caxton,...
Pierpont Morgan favored Caxton over Johann Gutenberg as a founder of printing and chose to memorialize him in the ceiling of the East Room. One of Caxton's most ambitious publications was Sir Thomas Malory's great epic of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
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Excellent facsimile editions of the Morgan Caxton and the Winchester manuscript are available: Le Morte D'Arthur Printed by William Caxton 1485 (London, 1976) and The Winchester Malory, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series 4 (London, 1976).
