The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights is a collection of folk tales based on the legendary character King Arthur written by James Knowles and Illustrated by Lancelot Speed.

King Arthur and his knights fought, endured, and toiled in the sixth century, when the Saxons were overrunning Britain; but their achievements were not chronicled by Sir Thomas Malory until late in the fifteenth century.

Sir Thomas, as Froissart has done before him, described the habits of life, the dresses, weapons, and armour that his own eyes looked upon in the every-day scenes about him, regardless of the fact that almost every detail mentioned was something like a thousand years too late.