Old French Romances done into English by William Morris, 1914.
King Arthur and the Table Round: Tales Chiefly After the Old French of Chrestien de Troyes, by William Wells Newell, 1897-1898
Ancient Engleish Metrical Romanceës, selected and publish’d by Joseph Ritson. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Company for G. and W. Nicol, 1802. —Ritson was an eccentric, a vegetarian, an atheist, and worst of all an orthographic reformer; but this edition still has a reputation today for careful scholarship. It was not well received by the critics, among whom Ritson had already built his reputation as a crank, and Ritson fully anticipated their sneers: “Brought to an end with much industry and more attention, in a continue’d state of il-health, and low spirits, the editour abandons it to general censure, with cold indifference, expecting little favour, and less profit; but certain, at any rate, to be insulted by the malignant and calumnious personalitys of a base and prostitute gang of lurking assassins, who stab in the dark, and whose poison’d daggers he has allready experience’d.” Within a year, Ritson was completely mad; he was removed to a private madhouse, where (as often happened under the treatment regime in such places) he died within days.
Vol. I. Dissertation on romance and minstrelsy; Ywaine and Gawin; Launfal.
Vol. II. Lybeus Dosconus; The geste of kyng Horn; The kyng of Tars, and the soudan of Damas; Emare; Sir Orpheo; Chronicle of Engleland.
Vol. III. Le bone Florence of Rome; The erle of Tolous; the squyer of lowe degre; The knight of curtesy, and the fair lady of Faguell.
Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries: published from ancient manuscripts. With an introduction, notes, and a glossary. By Henry Weber, Esq. Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh; and John Murray, and Constable, Hunter, Park, and Hunter, London, 1810.
Vol. I. Kyng Alisaunder; Sir Cleges; Lay le Freine.
Vol. II. Richard Coer de Lion; The Lyfe of Ipomydon; Amis and Amiloun.
Vol.
III. The Proces of the Seuyn Sages; Octouian
Imperator; Sir Amadas; The Huntyng of the Hare. Notes
and glossary.