Title: Seriously dissapointing for academic use.
Review: I ordered this book with great anticipation, since this text isn't readily available and hasn't had a proper academic treatment since the translation into Middle-English in 1484 (by William Caxton) and Victorian edition (in 1915 by William Morris). Unfortunately, though I was expecting a good new translated edition of the originals with all the expected academic material (footnotes and a helpful introduction), rather I was greeted by William Caxton's (at points, lamentably poor) translation, "rendered into Modern English" and given a flouncy pseudo-medieval "Olde Englishe" font.The text is, perhaps, fine for someone just getting familiarized with the material, but really isn't suitable for use in academic writing, and should, in my opinion, be avoided. The Caxton translation is pretty widely available online and for free.
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