Author: Sir John MandevillePublisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville Knight which Treateth of the Way Toward Hierusalem and Marvayles of Inde with Other Ilands and Countreys
Author: John MandevilleThe Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville Knight
Author: Sir John MandevillePublisher:
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville K and countreys - John Ashton
Author: John MaundevillePublisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736420609
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
I (the author of this book) have edited, and illustrated "The Voiage and Travayle of Syr John Maundeville, Knight," for two reasons. First, that a popular edition has not been published for many years—so much so, that many otherwise well educated people hardly know his name; or, if they do, have never read his book of Marvels. Secondly, a good edition has not yet been published. Putting aside the chap-books of the eighteenth century, which could only cram a small portion of his book into their little duodecimos, the only English versions of this century are the reprint by Halliwell, in 1839, of the reprint in 1725-1727, of the early fifteenth century MS. (Cotton, Tit. c. 16), which he again reprinted in 1866,1 the edition in "Bohn's Classical Library" ("Early Travels in Palestine"), 1848; and "The English Explorers," which forms part of Nimmo's "National Library," 1875. There was also a small edition published in Cassell's "National Library" in 1886 in modern English. Halliwell's reprint of the Cotton MS. is open to objection, because the language of the MS. is specially rude, and can only be understood by professed antiquaries, no footnotes explanatory of the text being given, only a glossary at the end of the book. Also, Mr. Halliwell has taken his illustrations from various sources, not confining himself to English woodcuts—the Cotton MS. having no illustrations. If, however, the language in Halliwell's edition is too archaic, Bohn and Nimmo err in the opposite direction. Without illustrations, and clothed in modern English, they are bald in the extreme; whilst the editors of both have not been over careful to closely copy the text. Seeing these difficulties, and dearly loving Sir John, in spite of his romancing, I cast about for a book which should fulfil the conditions of an edition I should like for my own reading; which should have the spice of the old language, without being unreadable, like the Cotton MS.
The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville, Knight
Author: Sir John MandevillePublisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Catalogue of the Literature and History of the British Islands ...
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Trübner's Bibliographical Catalogues
Author: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & CoPublisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
Catalog
Author: Walter M. Hill (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
The Library of the Late Theodore Low De Vinne
Author: Theodore Low De VinnePublisher:
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Category : Documents, Printing of
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Fiction of C. S. Lewis
Author: Kath FilmerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349225355
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
This book examines the way in which the fictional writings of C.S. Lewis reveal much about the man himself and his quest for psychological and spiritual wholeness. There is new material dealing with C.S. Lewis's political writings, especially the correspondences between his thriller, That Hideous Strength and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and some new insights into Lewis's attitudes to women.