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(KELMSCOTT PRESS.) The Tale of Beowulf. Translated by William Morris and A. J. Wyatt. Troy and Chaucer type printed in red and black with decorated initials and borders Batchelor Perch paper. 4to, gilt-lettered vellum, green cloth ties present and in good repair. "Note to the Reader" slip missing. (Hammersmith, 1895)
one of 300 unnumbered copies. Morris considered Beowulf "the first and the best poem of the English race." His translation was based on a prose rendering by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Alfred J. Wyatt of Christ's College, with whom he consulted over a two year period. Peterson A32.
