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ARMITAGE, SIMON; (Translator) SUDYKA, DIANA; (Illustrator). - Sir Gawain and The Green Knight.

Title: Sir Gawain and The Green Knight.
Description: First Folio Edition; Roy. 4to; pp. xiv, 114; illustrated coloured frontispiece, 13 text illustrations some being double page, bound in original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, decorated upper board, housed in original slip case, fine copy. London; The Folio Society; 2008. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance written in Middle English. The author is unknown, the title was given centuries later. It has become one of the best-known Arthurian stories. Written in stanzas of alternative verse, each of which ends in a rhyming bob and wheel, it draws on Welsh, Irish and English stories as well as the French chivalric tradition.

Keywords: literature english childrens

Price: AUD 75.00 = appr. US$ 51.89 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 118732