signed Hardcover
1953 · Stockholm
by TEGNER, Esaias
Stockholm: Limited Editions Club, 1953. Hardcover. Spine darkened. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Eric Palmquist. Large octavo (7" x 11") bound with a white natural Swedish linen spine and corner tips with sides of a tough rag paper colored by hand. Printed on paper made in Sweden for this book at the Royal Printing Office, Norstedt & Soner of Sweden. Translated into English Verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lucius Sherman, Thomas and Martha Holcomb, and William Lewery Blackley, with the introductory notes to the cantos by Longfellow and the general introduction by Bayard Taylor. Designed by Karl-Erik Forsberg with numerous illustrations by Eric Palmquist. Copy #844 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. (Inventory #: 018264)