Sir Gawain and the Green Knights

£300.00

MASCY, Hugh | GREENWOOD, Ormerod (translated by) | MORGAN, Roy (lithographs by) | IRELAND, Geoffrey (title-page designed by) SKU: 20352

A Fourteenth Century Alliterative Poem

London: Lion & Unicorn Press, 1956.

Number 54 of a Limited Edition of 200 copies printed on Precision Offset Cartridge paper. Folio. 12 pages of lithographs and the titlepage, 60 unnumbered pages of text. Housed in a loose leaf green folder with cloth spine and four folding flaps, edges of spine lightly rubbed, corner tips rubbed, still a near fine copy in extremely clean condition, without inscriptions or any other markings. Complete with the booklet which reproduces the text in a more reader-friendly format. The Lion and Unicorn Press was founded in 1954 at the Royal College of Art, London. Named after the Festival of Britain's Lion and the Unicorn Pavilion, the Lion and Unicorn Press was established with the aim of producing finely designed and typeset books, illustrated, printed and bound at the RCA.