Note 524:A — Chapter III
Reading edition
The title of this first edition, as gathered from the prologue and colophon, has been thus given by Mr. Dibdin:—
"A Book of The Noble Hystoryes of Kynge Arthur, and of certeyn of his knyghtes. Whiche book was reduced in to englyshe by syr Thomas Malory knyght and by me devyded into XXI bookes chapytred and enprynted, and fynysshed in th abbey Westmestre the last day of Juyl the yere of our lord M.CCCC. lxxxv. Folio."—Dibdin's Typographical Antiquities, vol. i. p. 241.