Beowulf. London: Faber & Faber, 1999. First Edition, Ninth Issue. Pp. 106. Black paper boards, lettered in gold along spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket featuring ‘The Rain’ by Barrie Cooke. A fine copy.

Signed by the Author on title page.

Translation of the Anglo-Saxon classic poem by the Heaney and includes a 22-page introduction by him.

Frontispiece plate depicting a leaf form the only surviving manuscript, now in the British Library, dating form the early eleventh century.