A series of stone lithographs by Kent, issued by him and printer George Miller, most of them in a limited edition of 150 prints. In Rockwellkentiana (see Authentication, below), pp. 50-51, Kent and Zigrosser number and list them, and give the quantity of each printed, as follows:
56. "Hand Holding Sword," 150 printed
57. "Genealogical Tree," 150 printed
58. "View of Scandinavia," "very few" printed
59. "Beowulf & Grenda's Mother," 150 printed ("Grenda's" sic)
60. "Beowulf," 150 printed
61. "Beowulf and the Dragon," 150 printed
62. "Funeral Pyre," 150 printed
63. "Colophon," 150 printed
The 8 images were used the following year for the deluxe presentation of William Ellery Leonard's translation of Beowulf (1932), but reversed from their original prints: each is noted (Rockwellkentiana, 50-51) to have been printed thus in the book. The same note indicates that the two in the series that contain words in the Beowulf book ("Genealogical Tree" and "View of Scandinavia") did not in the original prints, the words being added in the offsets for the book.
Associated with this suite of lithographs is one additional one, listed thus by Kent and Zigrosser (p. 50):
55. "Hero," 150 printed
The annotation indicates that this is "A figure of a man by a tree stump on a mountain top," and that it was "done at the time and in the spirit of the Beowulf Illustrations" (Rockwellkentiana, 50).
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Not in Fry, MO1, GR, or MO2.
[Have requested purchase of one original by Cushing.] For all others: Rockwell Kent and Carl Zigrosser, Rockwellkentiana: Few Words and Many Pictures by R. K., and, by Carl Zigrosser, a Bibliography and List of Prints (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933).