Beowulf. An Epic Poem

by A. Diedrich Wackerbarth

$2,655 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: William Pickering, 1849. First edition in English verse. Second edition in English, fourth overall, but the first edition to present the influential poem in English verse. Complete: xlvi, 159, 1 pp., with the folding map frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down and retaining original paper spine label. Spine chipped, with some loss to cloth and label.

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