The Riddles from the Exeter Book. Edited and translated by John Porter.
by (TERN PRESS) PORTER, JOHN
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Market Drayton, Tern Press, 1978. (62 pp). Woodcut illustrations. Uncut. Dark brown half leather with decorated and coloured cork boards. Woodcuts by Nicholas Parry, printed in Old Style on Medway paper and bound at the Tern Press by Nicholas and Mary Parry. Of eighty copies printed this is number 35, signed by the author and the illustrator.
The Exeter Book riddles are a fragmentary collection of verse riddles in Old English found in the later tenth-century anthology of Old English poetry known as the Exeter Book. The riddles are varied in theme and represent the familiar, material world from an oblique angle. The Tern Press, named for a little river that runs through the proprietors' garden, was founded in 1973 by Nicholas and Mary Parry, who performed all the design, editing, typesetting, illustrating, binding, marbling and selling of the seemingly endless creations from their imagination. The press was energetic and very productive. It used the greatest variety of typefaces, paper, bindings and illustration techniques to reflect an even broader range of subject matter, from the earliest Old and Middle English poets, to modern poetry and natural history. In a 35 year period the Parry's created over a 100 titles, all in very limited press runs. [c.f. Mercantile Library Exhibition Handlist].
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- The Riddles from the Exeter Book. Edited and translated by John Porter.
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- (TERN PRESS) PORTER, JOHN
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- Used
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- 1
- Place of Publication
- Market Drayton
- Date Published
- 1978
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