Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by ARMITAGE, SIMON (Trans) & SUDYKA, DIANA (Illus)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
The Folio Society 2008. Lg quarto, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt rule & illus to front board, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, xiii + 114pp, illus/engravings, Near FINE (v sl soiling to boards, v sl foxing to page edges) in slipcase, VG+ (light chafing & soiling)
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Translated from the Middle English.
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- Title
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Author
- ARMITAGE, SIMON (Trans) & SUDYKA, DIANA (Illus)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Folio Society 2008
- Keywords
- Simon Armitage translation Sir Gawain Green Knight folio society verse literature historical
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- Quarto
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