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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a fourteenth century alliterative poem: PB 455-2003

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Titles

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : a fourteenth century alliterative poem

Maker(s)

Author: Mascy, Hugh
Translator: Greenwood, Ormerod
Illustrator: Morgan, Roy
Illustrator: Ireland, Geoffrey
Publisher: Lion and Unicorn Press
Designer: Royal College of Art
Printer: Royal College of Art

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Description

Now attributed to Hugh Mascy, translated in the original metre by Ormerod Greenwood with twelve lithographs by Roy Morgan.

Issued in portfolio (text on 15 double leaves loose with 12 leaves of plates), with a 16-page introduction inserted.

[60] p : 12 col. plates ; 48 cm.

Place(s) associated

  • London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1956

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 drawn by Geoffrey Ireland. Designed and printed at the Royal College of Art, London, 1956". Museum has copy no. 165 Binding: green cloth spine with patterned paper sides over boards.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Illustrations

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 455-2003
Primary reference Number: 98461
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 30 June 2016 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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