Illustrated Translations, Retellings, and Adaptations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

by: Alan Lupack (Author)

Bourne, Hope, ill. Ridley, M. R. The Story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Modern English. Leicester: Edmund Ward, 1944. Special Limited Edition of 200 copies. Also published in a trade edition.

Braby, Dorothea, ill.  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Trans. Gwyn Jones. With Six Engravings in Colour by Dorothea Braby. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1952. (Limited to 360 copies.)

Burnett, Virgil, ill. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Trans. Keith Harrison. Lithographs by Virgil Burnett. London: The Folio Society, 1983.

Cox, John Harrington.  A Knight of Arthur’s Court or The Tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Translated and Adapted for School Use by John Harrington Cox. With unattributed illustrations. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914. Cox's text was reprinted with illustrations by George Barraud as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. London: George G. Harrp & Co. Ltd., 1917 & 1925.

Crow, Barbara, ill. Isaac, Margaret. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Christmas Tale of Long Ago. Caerleon: APECS Press, 2000.

Foreman, Michael, ill. Morpurgo, Michael. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2004.

Hicks-Jenkins, Clive, ill. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Trans. Simon Armitage. London: Faber and Faber, 2008.

Hunter, Susan, ill. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Retold by Margaret Berrill. Great Tales from Long Ago. London: Methuen Children’s Books in association with Belitha Press Ltd., 1988.

Lawrence, Frederic, ill. Kirtlan, Rev. Ernest J. B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Rendered Literally into Modern English from the Alliterative Romance-Poem of A.D. 1360, from Cotton Ms. Nero A X in British Museum. With an Introduction on the Arthur and Gawain Sagas in Early English Literature. Decorated by Frederic Lawrence. London: Charles H. Kelly, 1912.

Lorraine, Walter, ill. Hieatt, Constance. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1967.

Morgan, Roy, ill. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Poem, Now Attributed to Hugh Mascy. Trans. Ormerod Greenwood. Ill. with Twelve Lithographs by Roy Morgan. [London]: The Lion and Unicorn Press, 1956.

Rodriguez, Artemio, ill. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Trans. John Ridland. Tacambaro, Michoacan, Mexico: Taller Martin Pescador, 2013.

Satorsky, Cyril, ill. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The original Middle English text as edited by A. C. Cawley, and a modern verse translation, with an introduction by James L. Rosenberg. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1971. (Limited to 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator.)

Shannon, David, ill. Shanon, Mark. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994. (1st ed., in dj.)

Sudyka, Diane, ill. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Trans. Simon Armitage. London: The Folio Society, 2008.

Sweet, Darrell, ill. Ponsor, Y. R. Gawain and the Green Knight. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1979.

Vlock, Sandra E., ill. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Privately Printed, ?1974.

Wijngaard, ill. Hastings, Selina. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Words by Selina Hastings. New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books, 1981.