The Knyght of the Swanne

Copland, Robert, active 1508-1547, translator, Worde, Wynkyn de, -1534? printer, Gwynn, Edward, -1645?, former owner, Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner, Methuen, Paul, 1672-1757, former owner, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1512 · [London] : Enprynted in the famous cyte of London in ye Fletestrete at the sygne of the sonne by Wynkyn de Worde, in the yere of grace MCCCC xii, [1512] · 45 pictures

A 1512 English romance printed in London by Wynkyn de Worde, translated by Robert Copland, aimed at a general reading public and telling the legend of the Knight of the Swan. The woodcuts are small black-line scenes with captions above and below, showing courtly figures in pointed hats and gowns, a crowned king on a throne, and armoured knights in combat, offering a designer simple, dense medieval staging and costume ideas.

Chevalier au cygne · England · Legendary character) · London · Romances

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