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Le morte Darthur

Le morte Darthur

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Le morte Darthur

by Malory, Thomas Sir

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1851706119
ISBN 13
9781851706112
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London : Studio Editions, 1993. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth in a near fine, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: liv, 624 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. Subjects: Knights and knighthood in literature. Kings and rulers in literature. Rare books Great Britain ; Facsimiles. Illustration of books Illustrated books : graphic design Genre: Arthurian romances. Language: English.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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On Jul 30 2014, SimonTremarco said:
The Norton Critical Edition edition by Stephen Shepherd makes for an ideal presentation of Malory, one that strongly evokes the experience of reading the original Winchester manuscript, but at the same time gives plenty of help for the modern reader. Introduction, explanatory notes and glossary are finely judged. Note that this edition is in original spelling and is unabridged: a lower degree of difficulty can be found in Helen Cooper's abridged, modern-spelling edition (Le Morte Darthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics)).

The editor expresses some hesitation (p. xii) over the decision to break the text up into modern paragraphs, and not simply to reproduce the manuscript's placement of paragraph symbols in unbroken text. It's not a big issue, but I for one would have found this method attractive, the bold paragraph symbols (as I imagine) breaking up the text adequately and giving an even more distinctive, manuscript-like feel to it.

The only thing that slightly detracts from the book for me is the typesetting of the verso pages (the left-hand pages of each opening), which goes against traditional practice. Since the text is prose, set justified left and right, the marginal annotations of the left-hand pages could easily have been placed in the outer margin, in a mirror image of the right-hand pages. As it is there is a stark, mostly empty space along the inner edge of the left page, while the text comes to within a few millimetres of the outer edge, disturbing to the eye and leaving no thumb-room. Poetry has to be set this way, of course, with its ragged right edge - and in any case the narrower columns of text are easier to keep clear of the page's edge. But if this is Norton house style for prose, I can't see why it's necessary.

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Bookseller
MW Books Ltd. IE (IE)
Bookseller's Inventory #
350681
Title
Le morte Darthur
Author
Malory, Thomas Sir
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
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Edition
Facsimile Edition
ISBN 10
1851706119
ISBN 13
9781851706112
Publisher
London : Studio Editions
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1993

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