[Rarebooks] FS: A beautifully illustrated edition of BEOWULF by Lynd Ward

[Charles Agvent]

BEOWULF. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 
12") bound in blue linen and a richly decorative patterned paper 
hand-made by Ingeborg Borjeson in Stockholm. Modern verse translation of 
this Anglo-Saxon epic by William Ellery Leonard. Text is printed in 
three colors with color auto-lithographs drawn on separated plates by 
Lynd Ward. Copy #1087 of 1500. Issued unsigned. Fine, bright copy in a 
Near Fine slipcase. (#015869)        $200.00

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