Unabridged edition of Le Morte d'Arthur published before 1923 In what edition of _Le Morte d'Arthur_ , published before 1923, can I find the full, unabridged, uncensored version of Caxton's 1485 text? Yes, I know, Heinrich Oskar Sommer's work is perfect, but it's too hard to read, for obvious reasons. Probably F.J.Simmons edition? It has modernized spelling, and it says they used Upcott's* text and fixed it by comparing with Sommer's edition. But I'm not sure, because, as we all know, written words are not always true. (I chose the year 1923 due to copyright reasons). * * * * Upcott's edition is much better known as Southey's edition, but in fact Southey just wrote the preface, and has nothing to do with the text itself. The text is based on Caxton's 1485 edition, but contains a lot of errors and some strange replacements.

I would go for either of the following editions:

* _Le Morte d'Arthur_. Ed. **John Rhys (1906)**. (Everyman's Library 45 & 46.) London: Dent; London: J. M. Dent; New York: E. P. Dutton. You can find libraries that have it through WorldCat.
* _Le Morte Darthur_ : Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table,. Ed. **A. W. Pollard (1903)**. 2 vol. New York: Macmillan. This seems to be the edition that some websites provide for free:
* on archive.org: volume 1, volume 2.
* on Project Gutenberg: volume 1, volume 2.
* In a version available on Full Text Archive, A. W. Pollard writes:

> the most anxious care has been taken to produce a text modernised as to its spelling, but in other respects in accurate accordance with Caxton's text, as represented by Dr Sommer's reprint.