Robert Henryson The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables.
First Edition of Robert Henryson The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Poet Seamus Heaney
Robert Henryson The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables.
HEANEY, Seamus.
$350.00
Item Number: 4179
London: Faber & Faber, 2009.
First British edition of Heaney’s translation of Henryson’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Hand lettering and illustration by Seb Lester.
"The Testament of Cresseid is a beautiful, rare work, unique in the history of literature for [the ‘recognition’] scene alone. Heaney has done us all a generous and graceful service" (Ruth Padel, Financial Times).
