The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe ...

Accession number: 
PML 252939
Author: 
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
Published: 
[Fullerton, Calif.] : Ampersand Workshop, 1984.
Description: 
20 unnumbered leaves : color illustrations ; 55 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes: 

Poem.
"Christopher Marlowe, 1599."
Consists of two continuous strips of [8] leaves each, measuring 55 mm x 29 cm, folded accordion fashion to 55 x 41 mm; the 7th leaf of each strip is pasted to center of spine, the 8th leaf of first strip folded to form the title page while the 8th leaf of second strip is blank; the first strip is preceded by a blank leaf and the second strip is followed by the colophon leaf, conjugate with the initial blank.
"(14) panels letterpress accordian fold, marbled boards, marbled slipcase with paper label"--Cf. Bradbury.
"Hand-colored illus. by Carmen Voss"--Cf. Bradbury.
"This edition ... was produced by hand at the Ampersand Workshop, 1984"--Colophon.
Library's copy is no. 14/20.

Binding: 
Marbled boards backed in green. Issued in marbled slipcase with paper label.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Publisher's signature in ink below colophon as issued.

Provenance: 
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
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