The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville Knight..
hardcover
1887 · London
by MANDEVILLE, Sir John
London: Pickering, 1887. hardcover. near fine. Edited, Annotated, and Illustrated in Facsimile by John Ashton. 289 pages with untrimmed edges. 4to, Original pale blue boards (rubbed and somewhat discolored) with vellum spine. London: Pickering, 1887. Limited edition. Endpapers a bit foxed otherwise a beautiful pristine copy. Number 28 of 100 copies printed in Large Paper. Based on a reprint of the unique Pynson edition, the oldest English printed version extant, in the Grenville Library of the British Museum. "...Grenville and Dibdin believe [the Pynson edition] to be earlier than that of Wynken de Worde's" See Cox, I, p. 319. (Inventory #: 293400)