VALE PRESS: MARLOWE, Christopher, & George Chapman.

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Hero and Leander. First Vale Press edition, one of 220 copies printed, of which 200 were released for sale. This work presents Christopher Marlowe's 1598 rendering of the romantic mythological legend of Hero and Leander with the contemporary continuation of the poet and translator George Chapman. This edition was one of three productions by Ricketts and Shannon done "at the Vale", the name of their Chelsea home, before the official establishment of the Vale Press in 1896. The work commemorated the 400th anniversary of the first printing of Musaeus's sixth-century Greek text of Hero and Leander by Aldus Manutius in Venice in 1494.

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