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King Arthur — The Complete Book · Look Inside the Hardcover

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The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights — hardcover cover: King Arthur in gold armor on a rearing black horse

by Howard Pyle · Edited by Franklin Langston

This is the printed book, opened. Every page below is a real page of the hardcover interior — Howard Pyle’s own illustrations from his 1903 edition and the large-print text, exactly as she ships. Watch the pages turn first, then walk through them one by one.

Large Print Edition · 7×10 in · 387 pages · 29 illustrations by Howard Pyle, from his original 1903 edition.

Look Inside · The Flip-Through

Watch the Pages Turn

Thirty-five seconds inside the hardcover: the title page, Pyle’s plates and the large-print text turning past, closing with the three Amazon editions — hardcover, paperback and Kindle.

Look Inside · Page by Page

Title page of the hardcover
Title page
Frontispiece — Pyle's illustrated title page of the 1903 edition
FrontispiecePyle’s illustrated title page of the 1903 edition
Illustration — Sir Kay showeth the mystic Sword unto Sir Ector
Illustration — p. 31“Sir Kay showeth the mystic Sword unto Sir Ector”
Illustration — The Battle with the Sable Knight
Illustration — p. 70“The Battle with the Sable Knight”
Illustration — Excalibur the Sword
Illustration — p. 84“Excalibur the Sword”
Large-print text page — the story of Excalibur's coffer
Large-print text — p. 100
Illustration — The Lady Guinevere
Illustration — p. 103“The Lady Guinevere”
Illustration — The Lady of the Lake
Illustration — p. 188“The Lady of the Lake”
Illustration — Vivien bewitches Merlin
Illustration — p. 213“Vivien bewitches Merlin”
Illustration — Sir Pellias, the Gentle Knight
Illustration — p. 251“Sir Pellias, the Gentle Knight”
Large-print text page — Sir Gawaine and the abbot
Large-print text — p. 300
Illustration — King Arthur findeth ye old woman in ye hut
Illustration — p. 363“King Arthur findeth ye old woman in ye hut”

Look Inside · Take Him Home

All Three Editions Live on Amazon

Pages rendered from the actual hardcover interior (KING-ARTHUR-INTERIOR-7x10-LARGE-PRINT-V2) — the same pages Amazon prints. Howard Pyle’s The Story of King Arthur and His Knights was published in 1903 and is in the public domain; this edition keeps his text and all 29 of his illustrations untouched, set in large print. Editor: Franklin Langston.

King Arthur also talks: the four talking hologram volumes and the complete large-print PDF stand on this bookstore’s own shelf — ← back to the shelf to hear him.