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A Midsummer Night's Dream. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1908. [Fantasy drama] First Rackham Illustrated Edition. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.134. With forty tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guards. Bound in publisher's gilt-decorated light brown buckram. Some acceptable spotting/browning, lacks initial blank, cloth gently toned to spine, minor soil at foot. A very good copy. Shakespeare's story follows four young Athenian lovers and a group of actors who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of their play is set. Item #68138
Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.
Price: £250.00
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