Vale Press.- Longus. Daphnis and Chloe, translated by George Thornley, one of 210 copies, Old-Style type, wood-engraved illustrations by Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, decorative initials, some light offsetting, a few spots, small stamp in red ink to front free endpaper, contemporary purple morocco with double gilt fillet border and small ornaments to corners, ?by John Elliott (according to old cataloguing slip loosely inserted), spine titled in gilt t.,e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed and faded, particularly spine, top corner of upper cover bumped, [Watry A6], 4to, [The Vale for Elkin Mathews and John Lane], 1893.

⁂ Although not strictly a Vale Press item, like the five issues of The Dial and Hero and Leander of 1894, it anticipates the press. The first true Vale Press publication was Milton's Early Poems issued in 1896.