Beowulf

by Seamus Heaney

$1,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

London: Faber & Faber, 1999. First edition, signed limited issue. Number 283 of a limited 300 copies signed on a tipped-in leaf by Seamus Heaney; with a facsimile frontispiece of the opening page of the Nowell Codex manuscript. Bound in publisher's cream paper-covered boards over red cloth spine lettered in gilt and blocked in black; housed in publisher's stiff green card slipcase with upper and lower edges in red cloth.

  • Binding: Hardcover

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