Beowulf

This Old English epic, surviving in a manuscript of about the year 1000, follows the Geatish warrior Beowulf to the Danish hall of Heorot, where the monster Grendel has been killing Hrothgar's men. Beowulf tears Grendel apart, then dives to a mere to fight Grendel's mother. In the last movement, now an aged king of the Geats, he faces a dragon that has begun to ravage his people, with the young Wiglaf beside him. The poem intercuts these fights with feuds, gifts, and warnings about pride and kinship. It is a heroic narrative of three combats framed by the rise and fall of halls.

Bound in yellow-brown goatskin leather, cover blocked with an image in metallic blue and gold foils. Gilded page tops. Ribbon marker. Clamshell box covered in dark blue image and title blocked dark blue cloth and lined with printed Sirio paper. Separate blue and white image print within blue presentation folder.