Author: CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, Kevin (translator)
Title: Beowulf
Description: Woodbridge, U.K. Boydell Press, 1987. Hardcover. Wide small 8vo. Black cloth with red spine lettering, ictorial dust jacket. 142pp, (2pp). Extensive color illustrations, map, pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. Large 1987 ownership signature on inner flyleaf and tiny Cambridge name/address inkstamp on contents page and on top page edges. Superb, tight first edition of this volume in the "Poetry of Legend: Classics of the Medieval World" series. Not only a fine new translation, but one of the most unusual "Beowulf" editions ever, featuring useful and well-illustrated "Historical Background," "Time Chart," "Social Background," "Literary Background," map and more preceding the poem itself. .
Keywords: Poetry
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Title: Beowulf
Description: Woodbridge, U.K. Boydell Press, 1987. Hardcover. Wide small 8vo. Black cloth with red spine lettering, ictorial dust jacket. 142pp, (2pp). Extensive color illustrations, map, pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. Large 1987 ownership signature on inner flyleaf and tiny Cambridge name/address inkstamp on contents page and on top page edges. Superb, tight first edition of this volume in the "Poetry of Legend: Classics of the Medieval World" series. Not only a fine new translation, but one of the most unusual "Beowulf" editions ever, featuring useful and well-illustrated "Historical Background," "Time Chart," "Social Background," "Literary Background," map and more preceding the poem itself. .
Keywords: Poetry
Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 48877
- Book number: 48877
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