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In original dust wrapper. Bound in brown buckram with pictorial stamping on the cover and spine in gold and gold lettering; coloured top edge. Pictorial endpapers. Complete with the original advertising poster for the exhibition of watercolours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfortunate water damage and associated wear to boards and spine which resulted in many patches of discolouration. Some dark marks to boards as well, but gilt work remains visible and largely unworn. Bumping to spine tips and corners. Spine a little cocked and page block ever-slightly-warped with a little foxing. Joints in OK condition, but rear hinge cracked with netting exposed. A few other cracks throughout, together with one loose tissue guard and a few other pages only partially detached (not fully and not loose). Endpapers, particularly front ones, are water damaged and significantly creased. 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And witty visual puns, where a picture is simultaneously a pile of twisted branches, bones and hail; the outline of a chicken; and the solution to a riddle, spelled out in runes, reflect their complexity and their humour. Crowning this scheme is the stunning design that adorns the binding – a lightning-shattered evocation of the Sutton Hoo helmet that hints at the inspired, and inspiring, tales enclosed within this magnificent volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver 1000 years ago, the visionary Anglo-Saxon ruler Alfred the Great strived to replace Latin with English as the principal language of his kingdom. Verse in the vernacular flourished and, at the turn of the 11th century, monastic scribes wrote down these innovative oral compositions creating the first literature in English. Just decades later, William the Conqueror’s Norman invasion transformed the linguistic landscape of England so dramatically that, before long, these verses had become the unreadable remnants of an extinct language. One of the greatest collections of Anglo-Saxon poetry – the Exeter Book – was dismissed in an early 14th century inventory as ‘worthless’, and used as a beermat and chopping board, its vellum pages stained, sliced and singed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter centuries of neglect and ill-treatment, the tattered remains of this Old English literature were finally recovered in the 19th century. The tiny handful of preserved manuscripts were transcribed, edited and translated by pioneering scholars, attracted by their historical value and their heroic and ‘Romantic’ qualities. 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Edited, with a note on the text, by F.J. Simmons. 300 × 235 × 69 mm. Pp. [1–2], [i–v] vi–xxxi [xxxii], [1] 2–538 [539–544]: [23] leaves of ‘plates’, [2] leaves of plates. Type: Caslon with Old English for display (the title-page and colophon set by Folio). Full black morocco decorated in gold to a design by Beardsley (redrawn by Frances Button); pale brown hand-made endleaves (from Fabriano’s ‘Roma’ range). The colophon records that 1020 copies were printed. A printed slip with notes on the care of leather is loosely inserted. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[2] Thomas Malory, The Morte D'Arthur and Aubrey Beardsley [ornament] an essay by Anthony S. G. Edwards. 222 × 138 × 2 mm. Pp. [1–2] 3–15 [16]. Type: Ehrhardt. Sewn into printed pale brown paper wrappers. 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Publisher's original blue textured paper over boards, gilt titles to spine; in the correct unclipped (15s. net) dustwrapper. 19 x 12.8 cm, 320 pp. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA very good copy, with the binding square and firm, though with crushed spine tips. A contemporary inscription in pen is on the FFEP, and there are a few dog-eared pages; otherwise the contents remain clean, bright, and uninscribed. 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Introduced by Emily Wilson. Illustrated by Julie Dillon. 9 ½˝ x 6 ¼˝. 352 pages, 5 colour illustrations, including one double-page spread, black and white title page illustration. Gilded top edge, coloured endpapers. Typeset at The Folio Society in Apollo. Printed on Abbey Wove paper at Memminger MedienCentrum AG in Germany. Bound in Germany by Josef Spinner in cloth printed and blocked with a design by the artist. Printed slipcase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A literary phenomenon that paved the way for the current resurgence of mythological retellings, The Song of Achilles is both a captivating love story and a rousing adventure fantasy. 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