An excellent edition of The Exeter Riddle Book, Folio Society 1978. Pages crisp and clean, no marks that I can see. The slip case is clean and fully intact.

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The Folio Society published The Exeter Riddle Book in 1978. The book is no longer in print and must be purchased from secondhand booksellers. It is a translation of 95 Anglo-Saxon riddles originally found in the Exeter Book, a 10th-century manuscript. 

About The Exeter Riddle Book
• Translator: The riddles are translated and introduced by Kevin Crossley-Holland.
• Illustrator: The edition features black-and-white drawings by Virgil Burnett.
• Format: It is a hardback book bound in marbled elephanthide vegetable parchment, and includes a slipcase, though the condition of the slipcase varies on the secondhand market.
• Content: The collection contains 95 riddles, with additional explanatory notes. 

The Exeter Book, or Codex Exoniensis, is a 10th-century anthology of Old English poetry and riddles. It is considered one of the most important surviving manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon literature and is housed in the Exeter Cathedral library, where it has resided since the 11th century. 

The book contains nearly 100 poetic riddles, which are renowned for their playful, vivid, and sometimes bawdy nature