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The Defective Version of Mandeville's 'Travels', cd. M. C. Seymour, ERTS 319 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). xxx + 234 pp. ISBN 0-19722322-2. £50.00.
This is the fifth appearance for Mandeville in the EETS list, following M. C. Seymour's earlier editions of the Bodley version (EETS 253) and metrical versions (EETS 269) and Hamelius' editions (EETS 153 and 154). The 'defective' version, so called because of the loss of the second quire in the oldest known English translation of the Insular text, became the dominant form of the work in England. As Seymour points out, both Chaucer and (he Pearl-poet probably encountered the Travels...