SAXO GRAMMATICUS [also known as SAXO COGNOMI LONGUS). Elton, Olive. (transl).
The history of Amleth, Prince of Denmark by Saxo Grammaticus, translated into English from the editio princeps of the Latin text of his Historia Danica by Oliver Elton. With a prefatory note by Henrik de Kauffmann. The introduction by Sir Israel Gollancz and illustrations cut in wood by Sigurd Vasegaard.
[Copenhagen], Printed in Copenhagen near Elsinore for the Members of the Limited Editions Club, [1954]. 107,[5] pp. Woodcuts by Sigurd Vasegaard. Orig. publisher's hardcover binding (brown h.leather. In orig. slipcase. 4to. (Gesta Danorum. Liber 3, VI-4, II. English).Published in a limited edition of 1.500 copies, signed by the illustrator in pencil (Nr. 389). - The paper was specially made for this edition by De Forenede Papirfabrikker Ltd., and the binding was made by Anker Kysters Eftf., Bent Andre´.

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