Accession number
PML 143022
Creator
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.
Published
London : Sold by Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street ..., 1894.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Illustrated with 7 wood engraved illustrations, 1 decorative border, and numerous initials by Shannon and Ricketts.
"This book with decorations designed and cut on the wood by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon 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. Sold by Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street nigh the Albany."--Colophon.
Device of the Vale Press on page facing colophon.
Illustrated with 7 wood engraved illustrations, 1 decorative border, and numerous initials by Shannon and Ricketts.
"This book with decorations designed and cut on the wood by Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon 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. Sold by Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street nigh the Albany."--Colophon.
Device of the Vale Press on page facing colophon.
Description
112 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 20 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Vellum tooled in gilt, signed with the initials "CR" (i.e. Charles Ricketts) as designer and "HL" (i.e. Leighton, Son & Hodge) as binder; in cloth slipcase.
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