1. See Vinaver, Works, 2nd edn., 1967, p. xxxviii.

2. The two notable collections of critical essays have already been referred to: Essays on Malory, ed. J. A. W. Bennett; and Malory’s Originality, ed. R. M. Lumiansky.

3. Only one of the two extant copies of Caxton (that in the Pierpont Morgan Library) preserves this colophon.

4. D. S. Brewer, ‘the hoole book’, in Essays on Malory, pp. 41–63; p. 61. On the problem set by the concept of ‘unity’, see Vinaver, Works, 2nd edn., 1967, pp. xli-li.