Le Morte d'Arthur Volume I
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Overview:
- Title: Le Morte d'Arthur Volume I
- Author: Sir Thomas Malory
- Year: 1982
- ISBN-10: 0140430431
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Price: £2.50
- Pages: lv+468
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Le Morte d'Arthur Volume I
- Notes:
- Edited by Janet Cowen.
- Cover states "Volume 1" but title page uses "Volume I."
- Volume I extends through Book IX.
- "Published in Penguin Books 1969."
- "Reprinted 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982(twice)."
- Cover artist not credited; no visible signature.
- Price: A$6.50, C$3.95, $3.95
- The main work is preceded by pages i-xxxiii that include "Introduction" and "editor's Note." After the main work the roman numbering continues with pages xxxv-lv, which include "Notes to Volume I," Glossary of Proper Nouns," and a general "Glossary" of archaic words used in the work.
- This edition is based on the Caxton edition of 1485. The original version has been slightly modified by some regularizing and modernizing of spelling. Modern punctuation and paragraphing have also been adopted.
- Caxton's original Preface is included on page 3. Book I begins on page 9.