[Footnote 1: This has again been reprinted in 1884.]
[Footnote 2: Colonel Yule, in "The Book of Ser Marco Polo,"
&c. (1871), says:--"And from the great frequency with which
one encounters in catalogues both MSS. and early printed
editions of Sir John Maundeville, I should suppose that
the lying wonders of our English knight had a far greater
popularity and more extensive diffusion than the veracious
and more sober marvels of Polo. In Quaritch's last catalogue
(November, 1870) there is only one _old_ edition of Polo;
there are nine of Maundeville. In 1839 there were nineteen
MSS. of the latter _catalogued_ in the British Museum Library.
There are _now_ only five of Marco Polo. At least twenty-five
editions of Maundeville, and only five of Polo were printed in
the fifteenth century."]
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