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The Crowne of all Homers Worckes Batrachomyomachia Or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise. His Hymn’s [sic] and Epigrams Translated according to the Originall By George Chapman

1624

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The Crowne of all Homers Worckes Batrachomyomachia Or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise. His Hymn’s [sic] and Epigrams Translated according to the Originall By George Chapman

Title-page Attribution: As above
The engraved title page is signed ‘Will: Pass: fecit’
Printer and conjectured publication date from STC
Batrachomyomachia probably dates from after Homer; the hymns and epigrams are not by Homer
Other Copies: 21

1624

Auteur: Chapman, George
Titre: The Crowne of all Homers Worckes Batrachomyomachia Or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise. His Hymn’s [sic] and Epigrams Translated according to the Originall By George Chapman
Lieu de publication: London
Editeur: Printed by [Eliot’s Court Press for] Iohn Bill, his Maiesties Printer
Date: 1624
Langue: English
Nombre de scans: 183
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? 
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