Publication: Tales of the Round Table

Publication: Tales of the Round TablePublication Record # 668778
Editor: Andrew Lang
Date: 1908-00-00
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.
Price:
1/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: 166
Format:
hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Notes:
- Subtitle: Based on the tales in The Book of Romance.
- With 4 coloured plates and 21 other illustrations by H. J. Ford as stated on title page.
- New impression.
- Crown Svo, bound in cloth, with gilt side and back.
- Table of contents and table of illustrations on two unnumbered pages before first text page.
- Author of the twelve stories not printed but known from earlier printing in The Book of Romance.
- First text page not numbered, too.
- Coloured frontispiece and three more plates face given pages.
- 21 black and white mostly signed wood cut illustrations on unnumbered pages.
- Price from appendix Longmans' new series of prize books.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 2627221

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Anthology Title: Tales of the Round Table • anthology by Andrew Lang (variant of The Book of Romance 1902)

Contents (view Concise Listing)

Lancelot Bears off Guenevere • (1902) • interior artwork by H. J. Ford
1 • The Drawing of the Sword • (1902) • short story by Leonora Lang
8 • The Story of Sir Balin • (1902) • short story by Leonora Lang
[16] • Lancelot at the Chapel • (1902) • interior artwork by H. J. Ford
17 • The Questing Beast • (1902) • short story by Leonora Lang
26 • How Morgan Le Fay Tried to Kill King Arthur • (1902) • short story by Leonora Lang
33 • How the Round Table Began • (1902) • short story by Leonora Lang
37 • The Death of Merlin • short story by Leonora Lang (variant of The Passing of Merlin 1902)
38 • What Beaumains Asked of the King • (1902) • novelette by Leonora Lang
69 • The Quest of the Holy Graal • (1902) • short story by Leonora Lang
[97] • Guenevere & Sir Bors • (1902) • interior artwork by H. J. Ford
101 • The Fight for the Queen • (1902) • short story by Leonora Lang
109 • The Fair Maid of Astolat • (1902) • short story by Leonora Lang
[112] • Lancelot Brings Guenevere to Arthur • (1902) • interior artwork by H. J. Ford
129 • Lancelot and Guenevere • (1902) • novelette by Leonora Lang
151 • The End of it All • (1902) • short story by Leonora Lang
Tales of the Round Table (black and white) • interior artwork by H. J. Ford

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