Beowulf.
London: Faber and Faber, 1999. 8vo. Limited edition. #20 of 325 copies (of which 25 were reserved for the author). Signed on the limitation page. Original quarter rust cloth, printed in black with gilt lettering on the spine, over cream paper boards. In the publisher's slipcase of matching rust cloth and green paper. Frontispiece reproduction of the opening of Beowulf from the only surviving manuscript, now in the British Library, dating from the early eleventh century. Fine in fine slipcase. Item #9259
The translator's introduction is followed by the original poem and Heaney's translation (and marginal notes) in parallel. The translation is dedicated to Ted Hughes and won the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1999.
Price: £1,150.00