Kenneth Morris — Book of the Three Dragons

New York and Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co, 1930 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first printing of Kenneth Morris's reworking of a classic Welsh legend, illustrated throughout by Ferdinand Huszti Horvath. The first edition, first printing. The scarce trade issue with "Longmans, Green" imprint on title page, and "first edition" to colophon, rather than the later and more common "Junior Literary Guild" issue. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates by Hungarian illustrator and sketch artist Ferdinand Huszti Horvath. Collated, complete.In this work, Morris relays the early welsh legend of 'Mabinogion', tales compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th and13th centuries, from earlier oral traditions. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bump to back strip tail. Fading to back strip and board perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: Ferdinand Huszti Horvath. Very Good .