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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville - The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in Modern Spelling
Author(s): Mandeville, Sir John; Pollard, A W (editor)
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | N/A |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Macmillan and Co |
| Publication Year: | 1900 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| Book ID: | 016280 |
| Catalogue(s): | Books on Books, Book Collecting, Print and Design History ◇ Travel, Exploration and Topography |
xvi, 390pp. Title page printed in red and black. In a robust library binding: quarter bound in green leather over blue cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine. Decorated endpapers. 8vo. Boards a little worn, rubbed on corners and spine tips, mild scuffing around a sunned spine. Ex lending library with usual, tidy, markings. Some faint and occasional spotting on prelims, smudges on half-title page, else internally neat, clean and tidy. With an interesting bibliographical note giving a history of printing of Sir John Mandeville's remarks, with authorities, by A W Pollard. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville were edited anonymously in 1735, in a version for which a 'Cotton manuscript' in the British Museum is the only extant authority.
Keywords:
Bibliographical history
Travel
Sir John Mandeville
