Mandeville, John, The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight, A. Wilde 1722

Title: The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight
Author: Mandeville, John
Publisher: A. Wilde
Year published: 1722
Place of Publication: London
Book Condition: Good
Size: 4to
Binding: Rebound

Notes: The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight: Wherein is set down the Way to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem: As also to the Lands of the Great Caan, and Prestor John; to India, and divers other Countries: Together with many and strange Marvels therein. Printed by A. Wilde, for G. Conyers, in Little-Britain, T. Norris, at London-bridge, and A. Bettesworth, in Pater noster-Row. 1722, pp. 132, [4]. Illustrated with 67 woodcuts + 1 title page vignette, also a woodcut. Rebound in full oxblood leather, spine divided into six compartments with gilt titling. Page opposite title page damaged and pasted down to inner front board, rear two leaves also damaged, repair work visible to corners of top edges, with loss of text to outer margin of final leaf, index annotated in later (late-eighteenth-century) hand, pages foxed throughout. Owner’s name written on page opposite title page: ‘Sam[uel] F. McCleary, 1793’, the name appearing again on the title page and final page in the same hand. An eighteenth-century copy of the widely read – though spurious and highly fantastical – travel memoir of Sir John Mandeville, which first circulated between 1357 and 1371.