BEOWULF. A Verse Translation.

First Folio Society edition, first printing. First edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original quarter bound leather with gilt titles to the spine, red moire cloth with Celtic illustration by Becca Thorne, in slipcase. Top edge gilt. With decorative borders and illustrations throughout the text by Becca Thorne. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

A beautifully produced volume. 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.