Excerpt from Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances: To Which Is Prefixed an Historical Introduction on the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and EnglandTm: illumination prefixed to the present volume is taken from a very fine and interesting Manuscript in the British Museum, entitled Roman da Quete da Saint Graal, which has been obligingly pointed out to the Publisher by Sir Frederick Madden.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.