Le Morte d'Arthur Volume II

Overview:

  • Title: Le Morte d'Arthur Volume II
  • Author: Sir Thomas Malory
  • Year: 1979
  • ISBN-10: 014043044X
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Price: £1.50
  • Pages: 532+xxvii
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Glossary of Proper Nouns (Le Morte d'Arthur)
  • Notes:
    • Edited by Janet Cowen.
    • Cover states "Volume 2" but title page uses "Volume II."
    • Volume II starts with Book X.
    • "Published in Penguin Books 1969."
    • "Reprinted 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979."
    • Cover artist not credited; no visible signature.
    • Price $2.95 in the U.S.A.
    • The main work is followed by pages vii-xxvii that include "Notes to Volume II," Glossary of Proper Nouns," and a general "Glossary" of archaic words used in the work. Pages i-vi refer to pages at the start of the book that are unnumbered, and have no reportable content, but contribute to the cumulative roman numbering.
    • 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.