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Color screenprints by Zdeněk Sýkora, with artistic collaboration from Lenka Sýkorová. Typography by Zdeněk Ziegler. Prepared for publication by Zdeněk Křenek as volume 41, Aulos Publishers, Prague 2007. Typeset in John Baskerville and John Sans by MU typography studio. Printed at Flora s.r.o. Screenprints printed by Antonín Komárek and René Řebec. Bound at Studio Krupka. Issued in a limited edition of 99 numbered books, format 285 x 245 mm, printed on Munken Lynx 200g paper. First published in 1836, Karel Hynek Mácha's epic poem May is often considered a masterpiece of Czech literary Romanticism. In it, Mácha fully departs from the Czech Revivalist program of the first half of the 19th century, approaching the poem as the personal confession of a ragged romantic wrought with insecurity and questions about the meaning of life.