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Editions

James E. Cross, ed.
Cambridge Pembroke College Ms. 25: A Carolingian Sermonary used by Anglo-Saxon Preachers. (pb) £11.00

Richard Hamer, ed.
A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse. (pb) £3.50

Franciscus Junius
Cædmonis Monachi Paraphrasis Poetica Genesios ac Præcipuarum Sacræ Paginæ Historiarum, abhinc annos M.LXX. Anglo-Saxonicè conscripta, & nunc primum edita; ed. Peter J. Lucas. (pb) £20.00

Joseph Stevenson, ed.
The Gospel according to S. Matthew: The Lindisfarne & Rushworth Gospels. (hb) £15.00

Henry Sweet, ed.
Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Reader; 14th edn., C. T. Onions, rev. (hb) £6.00

Translations

Kevin Crossley-Holland, trans.
The Anglo-Saxon World. (hb) £6.00
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology. (pb) £5.00

Cynewulf
Cynewulf’s 'Elene': A Metrical Translation from Zupitza’s Edition; Jane Menzies, trans. (hb) £8.50

Graham Holderness
Craeft: Poems from the Anglo-Saxon. (pb) £4.00

Gordon Mursell, comp.
The Wisdom of the Anglo-Saxons. (hb) £4.50

Michael Swanton, trans.
Anglo-Saxon Prose. (pb) £6.50

Primers and grammars

Norman Davis
Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Primer; 9th edn. (hb) £5.00
Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Primer; 9th edn. (pb) £5.00

Bruce Mitchell
(w/ Fred C. Robinson): A Guide to Old English, revised with texts & glossary; [3rd edn.] (pb) £3.00
A Guide to Old English, 2nd edn. (pb) £4.00

Randolph Quirk and C. L. Wrenn
An Old English Grammar. (pb) £3.50

Reference

Albert Stanburrough Cook, comp.
A Glossary of the Old Northumbrian Gospels (Lindisfarne Gospels or Durham Book). (hb) £14.50

Philip Pulsiano
An Annotated Bibliography of North American Doctoral Dissertations on Old English Language and Literature. (hb) £10.00

Secondary sources

Rebecca Barnhouse and Benjamin C. Withers, eds
The Old English Hexateuch: Aspects and Approaches. (pb) £15.00

Robert B. Burlin
The Old English Advent: A Typological Commentary. (hb) £14.50

Elaine Tuttle Hansen
The Solomon Complex: Reading Wisdom in Old English Poetry. (hb) £15.00

Shari Horner
The Discourse of Enclosure: Representing Women in Old English Literature. (pb) £18.00

Sarah Larratt Keefer & Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, eds.
New Approaches to Editing Old English Verse. (hb) £12.00

Roger Lass and John M. Anderson
Old English Phonology. (hb) £10.00

Erich Neuner
Über Ein- und Dreihebige Halb-Verse in der Altenglischen Alliterierenden Poesie. (hb) £6.00

Mary Swan and Elaine M. Treharne, eds
Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century. (hb) £27.50

Michael Swanton
English Poetry before Chaucer. (pb) £8.00

E. E. Wardale
Chapters on Old English Literature. (hb) £6.00

Books & journals containing related material

[Journal].
Essays and Studies, no. 55 (2002); ed. Elaine Treharne. Writing and Gender in Old and Middle English Texts. (hb) £6.00

[Journal].
Medieval History; vol. 2, no. 1 (1992). (pb) £6.00

[Journal].
Neophilologus: An International Journal of Modern & Medieval Language & Literature. vol. LX, no. 3 (July 1976). (pb) £5.00

W. F. Bolton, ed.
Sphere History of English Literature, 1: The Middle Ages. (pb) £2.50

R. Derolez, ed.
Anglo-Saxon Glossography: Papers Read at the International Conference held in Brussels, 1986. (pb) £25.00

Robert Farrell
(ed.):  The Vikings. (hb) £15.00

Britton J. Harwood & Gillian R. Overing, eds.
Class and Gender in Early English Literature: Intersections. (pb) £6.00

Sarah Lynn Higley
Between Languages: The Uncooperative Text in Early Welsh and Old English Nature Poetry. (hb) £14.50

Eric Jager
The Tempter’s Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature. (hb) £15.00

W. P. Ker
Medieval English Literature. (hb, Home University Library) £5.00

Tadao Kubouchi
From Wulfstan to Richard Rolle: Select Papers on Old and Middle English. (pb) £10.00

Richard North and Tette Hofstra, eds.
Latin Culture and Medieval Germanic Europe. (pb) £10.00

Sylvia Tomasch & Sealy Gilles, eds.
Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages. (hb) £20.00
Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages. (pb) £10.00

Sir A. W. Ward & A. R. Waller, eds.
The Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. 1: From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. (hb) £6.00

Dorothy Whitelock
The Beginnings of English Society. (pb) £5.00

R. M. Wilson
The Lost Literature of Medieval England; 2nd edn. (pb) £12.00

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