The book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian : concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Henry Yule's annotated English edition of Marco Polo's travels, published by John Murray in London in 1871 for scholars and armchair travellers of the Victorian period. Wood-engraved plates and text cuts show Asian cities and monasteries, harbours crowded with masts and junks, mountain passes, costumed figures and copies of medieval maps and Chinese inscriptions.
