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Hero and Leander / by Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman ; [with decorations designed and cut on the wood by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon].

Accession number
PML 129632
Creator
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
Published
[London] : Sold by E. Matthews and J. Lane, 1894.
Credit line
Gift of Cathleen T. McLoughlin in memory of John de Rohan; 2003.
Notes
"This book ... was begun at the Vale in November MDCCCXCIII and finished in February MDCCCXCIV ... Of this edition only two hundred and twenty copies exist ... The printing is by the Ballantyne Press, London and Edinburgh."
Bound in original gilt tooled vellum, signed with the initials of Ricketts and the binder, Henry Leighton.
Description
112 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Provenance
From the collection of Cathleen T. McLoughlin; bookplates of Hennetta Ricketts, Oliver Spaulding, and Robert Bruce Moyer.
Classification
Department