BEOWULF: A New Verse Translation.

First edition. Signed, numbered, limited edition. Original cream boards, quarter-bound in red cloth, the spine lettered in gilt to a gilt-framed black label. Housed in the original stiff green card slipcase with upper and lower edges in red cloth. Dark green endpapers. Frontispiece colour reproduction of the opening of the only surviving manuscript of the original Anglo-Saxon poem, now held at the British Library. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents bright and clean throughout, in the equally fine slipcase. A lovely, sharp copy.

Signed in black ink by Seamus Heaney, and numbered to the limitation page. One of 300 signed and numbered copies bound by Smith Settle, Otley, West Yorkshire, this copy being number 294 (25 copies numbered I-XXV were reserved for the author). Dedicated to the memory of his friend, Ted Hughes, Heaney's line-by-line translation from the original Anglo-Saxon of this great Northern epic and foundational work of English and European literature was winner of the 1999 Whitbread Poetry Prize. (Brandes & Durkan A72b).