The Book of John Mandeville: An Edition of the Pynson Text with Commentary on the Defective Version

This new edition reclaims the Pynson version (c. 1496), previously available only in black-letter facsimile, and the so-called Defective texts, which made up more than two-thirds of the Mandeville documents surviving in manuscript and which supply a large and neglected corpus of variant readings. The introduction and commentary discuss much-debated issues of authorial intention and of textual reception and variance.