The Wanderer and Other Old-English Poems

This anthology presents Old English poems with facing modern translations. Elegies such as The Wanderer, The Seafarer, and The Ruin speak of exile, the sea, and ruined halls. Heroic pieces include The Battle of Maldon, Brunanburh, Deor, and Widsith. There are also the Wife's Lament, the Husband's Message, Wulf and Eadwacer, The Dream of the Rood, and a run of Exeter Book riddles. The subjects are loss, loyalty, battle, and encoded objects. The book is a bilingual selection of surviving vernacular verse, not a prose history of the Anglo-Saxons.

Quarter-bound in goatskin with blind and silver blocking on the spine. Boards printed and blocked with designs by the artist. Endpapers printed with a design by the artist. Top edge gilded in gunmetal foil, ribbon marker. Clothbound slipcase blocked in silver on the front board.