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[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. William Shakespeare. A Midsummer-Night's Dream. London and New York: William Heinemann an...
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[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. William Shakespeare. A Midsummer-Night's Dream. London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908.4to. 40 color-printed plates tipped to mounts and numerous illustrations by Rackham. Original pictorial gilt vellum gilt over boards, top edge gilt, others uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, number 386 of 1,000 copies, SIGNED BY RACKHAM. Rackham's imagery for this edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream "became the standard by which subsequent illustrations of Shakespeare's play have been judged" (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 204).
Condition: Upper cover and spine with a few dark surface blemishes; a little soiled; lacking one silk tie (the other laid in loose). Endpapers a little discolored. Light offsetting from mounting sheets affecting text as usual; minor light foxing (mostly to captioned guards); a few leaves lightly toned.
References: Latimore & Haskell, p. 32; Riall p. 87.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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