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Hero and Leander: Begunne by Christopher Marloe, and finished by George Chapman.

1617

Author: Marlowe, Christopher
Title: Hero and Leander: Begunne by Christopher Marloe, and finished by George Chapman.
Publication Location: London
Editor: Printed by G[eorge] P[urslowe] for Edward Blount, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the blacke Beare.
Date: 1617
Language: English
No of scans: 114
Type: Print
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  • that the Bodmer holds the largest collection of early Shakespeare editions outside the Anglophone world? 
  • that the original price for a bound copy of the First Folio when it was first published in 1623 was about £1? 
  • that Bodmer bought most of his Shakespearean books from the American collector A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1951?
  • that the Bodmer contains 24 early modern printed English books which survive in just 10 or fewer copies?
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