8vo. Facsimile volume and commentary set in solander box. Main volume bound in dark brown morocco, bevelled boards, and raised bands, lettered in gilt and blind, gilt edges, silk marker. Commentary volume with burgundy cloth back. Fine.

Lettered ‘J’ of 20 hors commerce, one of 20 copies from the limited edition of 1000 copies to members of the Folio Society. Facsimile edition of the illuminated manuscript held by the British Library and printed by Cambridge University Press on Phoenix Motion Xenon paper. The volume is bound by Smith Settle in full goatskin over bevelled boards, with calligraphic blocking by John Andrew and handmade laid-paper endleaves from the Fabriano Mill. Accompanied by a 41-page commentary by Andrew Prescott and housed in a Solander box. St Æthelwold served as Bishop of Winchester between 963 and 984. His Benedictional is regarded as one of the most richly ornamented manuscripts to survive from Anglo-Saxon England.