Legends of Arthur Book

I got this more to flick through than to read in full -- ah, second hand books. It contains two retellings each of the stories of Arthur, Gawain and Tristan, which endears it to me somewhat. It has a story of the more imperial Arthur and then one of his Round Table; the first from Geoffrey of Monmouth, with an extended section on Arthur's death, and then one from Malory and the Vulgate Cycle. After that, it has a poetic translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and a prose translation/retelling (not certain which, without the original to compare) of, I think, the Dutch Gawain romance, Roman van Walewein. The translations are not the most sparkling I've encountered, if translations they are, and they make singularly flat retellings, too. The Tristan stories, I'm less familiar with, and the introduction is not very clear about exactly where they're drawn from.

I think, to be honest, all of these books are best encountered in their own editions, with the accompanying notes and introductions and fully realised translations. Even for a casual reader, but especially for a scholar.