Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a fourteenth century alliterative poem / now attributed to Hugh Mascy ; translated in the original metre by Ormerod Greenwood ; with twelve lithographs by Roy Morgan

Hugh Mascy

RA Collection: Book

Record number

10/201

Author

Imprint

London: The Lion and Unicorn Press, 1956

Physical Description

1 portfolio (15 folded sheets (60 unnumbered pages), 16 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates) : colour illustrations ; 48 cm.

General Note

“This edition is limited to 200 copies, printed on Precision Offset Cartridge paper. The text has been set in 19pt. Centaur by the University Press, Oxford. The lithographs have been drawn to the plate by the artist and printed by offset lithography. The title page has been drawn by Geoffrey Ireland. Designed and printed at the Royal College of Art, London, 1956. [Colophon].

Reproductions

The images from this edition have been digitised by the Royal College of Art and made available online via the Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight website, along with further biographical information about the illustrator, Roy Morgan.

Copy Note

Edition of 200 numbered copies. This un-numbered copy is ‘out of series’.

Subject

Illustrated books
14th-century poems
Arthurian poets
Arthurian legend
Romances
Gawain (Legendary character)

Contributors

Roy Morgan, lithographer, illustrator
Geoffrey Ireland, illustrator
John Ormerod Greenwood, translator
The Lion and Unicorn Press, publisher
Oxford University Press, printer
Royal College of Art (London), printer