The House of Fame.

Based, like most modern editions of the poem, on the earliest surviving manuscript witness, Bodleian MS Fairfax 16 (F), this edition brings current views on the relationship of the surviving witnesses into sharper focus, citing corroborative evidence that rather than being a copy of F the text in MS Bodley 638 (B) derives from the same exemplar, and adding details about Thynne's 1532 edition. Concurring with A. S. G. Edwards that Thynne depended not directly on Caxton's edition but on Pynson's reprint of it, Havely adds new evidence of press correction in Thynne implying a more complex relation between surviving copies than has hitherto been supposed, evidence which may bear on …