Table of Contents

Introduction; Editions; Chapter 1 1. Caxton's preface; Chapter 2 Wynkyn de Worde Interpolation; Chapter 3 Tudor historians on Malory; Chapter 4 Renaissance views; Chapter 5 Two seventeenth-century comments; Chapter 6 Biographia Britannica; Chapter 7 Samuel Johnson; Chapter 8 Thomas Warton; Chapter 9 Sir Walter Scott; Chapter 10 Early nineteenth-century scholars and bibliographers; Chapter 11 The British Bibliographer; Chapter 12 Walker's British Classics; Chapter 13 Robert Southey; Chapter 14 Three literary historians; Chapter 15 Frederic Madden; Chapter 16 Thomas Wright; Chapter 17 Unsigned review of Wright's edition, Christian Examiner; Chapter 18 David Masson; Chapter 19 Unsigned review of Wright's edition, Blackwood's Magazine; Chapter 20 Unsigned review of Wright's edition, Dublin University Magazine; Chapter 21 James T.Knowles; Chapter 22 D.W.Nash; Chapter 23 George Perkins Marsh; Chapter 24 Herbert Coleridge; Chapter 25 F.J.Furnivall; Chapter 26 Samuel Cheetham; Chapter 27 Edward Conybeare; Chapter 28 Edward Strachey; Chapter 29 William Blake Odgers; Chapter 30 A.C.Swinburne and R.H.Hutton; Chapter 31 William Minto; Chapter 32 Harriet W.Preston; Chapter 33 Sidney Lanier; Chapter 34 George W.Cox; Chapter 35 Gaston Paris; Chapter 36 Ernest Rhys; Chapter 37 Brief References; Chapter 38 Edward R.Russell; Chapter 39 Frederick Ryland; Chapter 40 Bernhard Ten Brink; Chapter 41 H.Oskar Sommer; Chapter 42 Andrew Lang; Chapter 43 Reviews of Sommer's edition of Malory; Chapter 44 ‘An Arthurian Journey’, unsigned essay, Atlantic Monthly; Chapter 45 Strachey again; Chapter 46 Other nineteenth-century editors after Sommer; Chapter 47 Craik's English Prose Selections; Chapter 48 Mungo MacCallum; Chapter 49 W.E.Mead; Chapter 50 G.H.Maynadier; Chapter 51 George Saintsbury Index;

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