For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
This is the Charles Keeping cover of my Puffin p/b edition. (Keeping also did the illustrations for the book).
I wonder just how many different cover images there are for Sutcliff’s book? Some of them are rather odd, I have to say, but the most bizarre Beowulf cover I’ve ever come across is this one which was done for the 1954 edition of Ian Serrallier’s adaptation, titled “Beowulf the Warrior”. What on earth were the publishers thinking?
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
Anne, yes that is the edition of the Sutcliff Beowulf that I have! And I am with you on the Serraillier one – very peculiar!
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I am not sure what terms exactly I searched on. Hence a new posting above.
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This is the Charles Keeping cover of my Puffin p/b edition. (Keeping also did the illustrations for the book).
I wonder just how many different cover images there are for Sutcliff’s book? Some of them are rather odd, I have to say, but the most bizarre Beowulf cover I’ve ever come across is this one which was done for the 1954 edition of Ian Serrallier’s adaptation, titled “Beowulf the Warrior”. What on earth were the publishers thinking?
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My copy is different again – nearest the Charles Keeping one in the lower right corner.
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