conybeare john josias william daniel (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Facsimile. 286 Pages Facsimile Reprint Of Original 1826 Edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. Original marbled paper decorated boards, with relatively new leather spine. Marbled endpapers. xcvi + 286 pages + errata leaf. Includes a long introductory essay on meter. Anglo-Saxon examples include Hymns of Caedmon and of Bede; Song of the Traveller; Beowulf; and several others. Beowulf is presented in the original and also a parallel Latin translation. Binding good and tight. Pages toned from age, but clean and square. There is an interesting stamp on the inside front cover with pre-printed Japanese text, but the name of this book and price in Yen handwritten in the blanks. This stamp (literally a stamp, like a postage stamp) is upside down on the inside front cover, and is the size of a postage stamp.

FIRST EDITION of this important publication, one of the pillars of early Anglo-Saxon studies. viii, xcvi, 288 pp. Includes numerous texts in Anglo-Saxon--most appearing here in first edition--accompanied by translations into Latin and English and substantial commentary. A LARGE-PAPER COPY, PRINTED ON FINE LAID PAPER WITH HUGE MARGINS. Engraved armorial bookplate of Frederic Markham Tindall. Large 4to. Elegantly bound in quarter vellum and marbled boards. A few spots of foxing, else UNCUT, FINE, AND BRIGHT. An outstanding copy of a rare and important book.