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Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1994. 2nd ed.. hardcover. 8vo, 239 pp.+plates .

Woodbridge, England: The Boydell Press, 1994. Corrected Reprint . Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Oakeshott, Ewart. 237pp.incl.index+plates; HB quarter-bound blk.&blk.w/gilt; new; fine conditon w/clean,tight pgs. DJ red w/white; new; fine condition. History of the sword. illus.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1962. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first printing octavo hardback. 288 pp Illustrated Very Good + condition in very good unclipped dust jacket (now in protective removable transparent sleeve). No inscriptions

First edition. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1962. xxvii, 237pp. 16 plates. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine. Edges lightly spotted. A nice copy.Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson (1914-2006) English antiquarian and academic, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquities.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [5], vi-xxvii, [2], 2-237, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 55d. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few in-text figures and with sixteen plates of black and white drawings. A study of the sword and its significance in Anglo-Saxon and Viking societies. Based largely on material from the British Isles. With a discussion of how and where the finest swords were made, from what was then recent archaeological evidence. Also with a study of the sword and its metaphor in medieval Latin, Old Norse, and Anglo-Saxon prose and poetry. A small separation between the backstrip and the textblock; jacket shows a few small traces of edge wear.