Transcriber's Note:
The Transcriber's Note is at the end of the book.
THE VOIAGE AND TRAVAYLE OF SIR
JOHN MAUNDEVILLE, KNIGHT.
THE VOIAGE AND TRAVAYLE
OF
SIR JOHN MAUNDEVILLE
KNIGHT
WHICH TREATETH OF THE WAY TOWARD HIERUSALEM
AND OF MARVAYLES OF INDE WITH OTHER
ILANDS AND COUNTREYS
Edited, Annotated, and Illustrated in Facsimile
BY
JOHN ASHTON
Author of "Chap Books of the 18th Century," "Social
Life in the Reign of Queen Anne," "English Caricature and
Satire on Napoleon I.," &c.
LONDON
PICKERING & CHATTO
66, Haymarket
1887
CHISWICK PRESS:—C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY LANE.
PREFACE.
I HAVE edited, and illustrated "The Voiageand Travayle of Syr John Maundeville,Knight," for two reasons. First, that apopular edition has not been published formany years—so much so, that many otherwise welleducated people hardly know his name; or, if they do,have never read his book of Marvels. Secondly, a goodedition has not yet been published. Putting aside thechap-books of the eighteenth century, which could onlycram a small portion of his book into their little duodecimos,the only English versions of this century are thereprint by Halliwell, in 1839, of the reprint in 1725-1727,of the early fifteenth century MS. (Cotton, Tit. c. 16),