Mandeville's Travels

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Author: John Mandeville (1300-1371) Malcolm Letts (translator) Year: 1953 Publisher: Hakluyt Society Place: London Description: 2 volumes: lxiii+225 pages with frontispiece, 2 maps (one folding); xii+[226]-554 pages with frontispiece and 2 other illustrations and index. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt pictorial stamped representation of the ship Victoria on the cover and blind stamped ruled edges. Volume one the text of British Library Egerton MS 1982, with an essay on the cosmographical ideas of Mandeville's day by E. G. R. Taylor. The main pagination of this and the following volume is continuous. Volume two The Paris text (French, with translation by Malcolm Letts), the Bodleian text, and extracts from other versions. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Numbers 101 and 102. First edition Sir John Mandeville, (flourished 14th century), purported author of a collection of travelers' tales from around the world, The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Knight, generally known as The Travels of Sir John Mandeville . The tales are selections from the narratives of genuine travelers, embellished with Mandeville's additions and described as his own adventures. The actual author of the tales remains as uncertain as the existence of the English knight Sir John Mandeville himself. The book originated in French about 1356–57 and was soon translated into many languages, an English version appearing a

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