BEOWULF. A Verse Translation.

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original quarter bound leather with gilt titles to the spine, red moire cloth with Celtic illustration by Becca Thorne, in the original 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. Housed in 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.