The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. which treateth of the way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Ilands and Countryes. Reprinted from the Edition of A.D. 1725. With an introduction, additional notes, and glossary [...]

Full title: The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. which treateth of the way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Ilands and Countryes. Reprinted from the Edition of A.D. 1725. With an introduction, additional notes, and glossary, by J.O. Halliwell, Esq., F.S.A., F.R.A.S.

8vo. pp. xvii, xii, 326. Signatures: A8 a4 chi1 B-2B8 2C4. Cloth. Frontispiece, illustrations. Endpaper signed: “Tho. Ballard, Ledbury.”

Reprint from the 1725 edition of a work attributed to the 14th century English traveler John Mandeville, which was in fact an English version of a text known as "Itinerarium," extending the great tradition of ‘travel liars’ from Ctesias and Euhemerus. It recounts the tales of a fictional fourteenth-century English traveler from St. Albans to the Holy Land and thence to Asia and other unchristianized regions. The original was probably written in Anglo-Norman French around 1357 and has been attributed to the Belgian compiler Jean d'Outremeuse. See E. Havens, “Babelic Confusion. Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W. Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, pp. 59-60.

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