Gerard or Gheraert Leeu, ''Leew, Lyon'', or ''Leonis'', (between 1445 and 1450, Gouda - 1492, Antwerp) was a Dutch printer of incunabula. Leeu printed his first (liturgical) book in May 1477 in his shop in Gouda, where between 1477 and 1484 he produced a total of about 69 books. In 1484 he moved to Antwerp, where he died in 1492 from a stab wound during a quarrel with one of his typesetters. Besides printing works in

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, he reprinted some of William Caxton's editions for the English market. These were ''The History of Jason'', ''The History of Paris and Vienne'' and ''The Chronicles of England''. He published the Dialogus creaturarum in a number of editions, the first being in 1480. He also printed a Latin version of the Solomon and Marcolf legend, entitled ''Collationes quod dicuntur fecisse mutuo rex Solomon ... et Marcolphus'' in 1488, which he followed in 1492 with an English translation, ''This is the dyalogus or communyng betw t the wyse King Solomon and Marcolphus''. It is not clear whether the English translation was done out of Dutch or Latin, but it is likely that Leeu had the translation made in his own shop from the earlier Latin edition.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Leeu, Gerard 15th-century births 1492 deaths Printers of incunabula Dutch printers People from Gouda, South Holland