First edition, presentation copy of the very scarce deluxe issue, both volumes number 11 of 200 copies for England from a deluxe limited edition of 250. Each volume is inscribed by the translator on the front free endpaper, "J. Newby Hetherington, with kind regards from the translator Sebastian Evans, June 1898". Evans (1830-1909) was a political activist, artist, poet and translator from medieval French, Latin, Greek and Italian. He also published, separately but in the same year, his own study of this text, In Quest of the Holy Graal, an Introduction to the Study of the Legend (Dent 1898). The recipient Hetherington was a British man of letters, author of the book Shakespeare's Fools (1879), as well as an article on "The use of fairy tales in the education of the young". This very scarce deluxe issue has the illustrated frontispiece plates by Evans' friend Edward Burne-Jones (which are similar to the Grail Quest tapestries was designing around this time for Stanmore Hall) in two states.
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