Bjowulfs Drape. Et gothisk helte-digt fra forrige aar-tusinde, af angel-saxisk paa danske riim

by Beowulf, Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, trans

$4,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition in Danish, and the second complete translation in any language. lxxiv, 325 pp. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter mottled calf and marbled paper-covered boards, red calf spine label, titled in gilt, marbled endpapers; edges stained red. Very good. scattered minor foxing to text leaves; small bookseller's ticket top corner verso of front blank; bookplate of Sigurd Trier on front paste-down. Item #345988

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