ICELANDIC POETRY, OR THE EDDA OF SAEMUND translated into English Verse

by A. S. Cottle by The Poetic Edda, A. S. Cottle

$875 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Bristol: Printed by N. Biggs, for Joseph Cottle, and Sold in London by Messrs. Robinson, 1797. Octavo, pp. i-iii iv-xliii xliii xliv: blank 1-2 1-3 4-318 + errata leaf, old full calf, leather spine label, spine panel ruled and tooled in gold. First edition of this translation. Cottle's work is the first attempt to translate the Poetic Edda into modern English. The Poetic Edda, also known as Sæmundar Edda or

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