The Death of King Arthur
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Malory, Sir Thomas. The Death of King Arthur: Being the Twenty-first Book of Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table. With illustrations designed and engraved on wood by Catherine Donaldson. London: Macmillan, 1928. One of 525 copies on Whatman handmade paper.
Since only Caxton's final book is included in this edition, Donaldson's somber woodcuts depict both commonly represented scenes and some unusual ones. She depicts Arthur seeing Mordred on the final battlefield and Arthur in the barge. But there are also illustrations of Arthur's dream, the hundred torches burning about the corpse of Guinevere, and Gawain lying nearly dead in a boat after Arthur's forces fought to land back in Britain.