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ANDERSON, Rasmus B. (1846–1936), editor. Norroena; Anglo Saxon Classics, Embracing the History and Romance of Northern Europe. London: Norroena Society, 1906. 15 volumes, 8vo. Numerous hand–colored photogravures including frontispieces with printed tissue–guards. Publisher’s full leather pictorially stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (several spines and joints dried with some separation; contents tight and clean). SAXO EDITION, limited to 350 copies, this being number 23. In Halldor Hermannsson’s 1908 bibliography of Icelandic Sagas, the author references a Viking Edition set and also mentions a Saxo Edition set. “The Saxo Edition is mentioned by no other source and no example of the set has been either presented for sale or listed in a library collection”. (Bibliography of the Icelandic Sagas, p. 83).