The Tale of Beowulf, Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats

2nd edition, third printing.  192, [6]pp.  Black cloth-covered boards with titling on white paper spine label.  12no.  Cloth a little rubbed and moderately rounded at corners and spine tips, a couple of minor indentations on edges, a little worn, slightly sunned over spine; title page a little soiled and chipped at edges.  Upper text block edge dust dull, remaining edges slightly foxed.  Hint of foxing on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Beowulf is an Old English poem, an epic in the tradition of Germanic heroic legends, set in pagan Scandinavia in the 5th to 6th centuries. The original date of the poem is hotly contested, but it is certain that there was a manuscript version produced in the late 10th or early 11th century.