2. Marlowe (Christopher) and George Chapman. Hero and Leander, one of 220 copies on Arnold’s unbleached handmade paper, printed in Caslon type by the Ballantyne Press, 7 wood-engraved illustrations and decorative border and initials by Charles Ricketts and Charles H.Shannon, light spotting at beginning and end, bookplate of Philip A.Robinson by Edward Burne-Jones, original vellum decorated with rules, small circles and leaf corner-pieces in gilt, designed by Ricketts and Laurence Housman, signed at foot of both boards, uncut, very slightly soiled, head of spine bumped, modern cloth slip-case, 8vo, 200 x 130mm., Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894.
est. £500 – £700