The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables. London: Faber, 2009. First Edition. First Issue. A fine bright in fine dust jacket.

Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page.

Heaney’s translations from the work of Scottish poet Robert Henryson. Henryson was a part of a group of writers dubbed ‘The Scottish Chaucerians,’ for their love of Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of The Canterbury Tales, a poem in Middle English.

‘The Testament of Cresseid’ tells of the tragic love story of two Trojan youths during the Trojan War.