Arthur Rackham Finely Illustrated A Midsummer's Night Dream
by Rackham, Arthur
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About This Item
[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. William Shakespeare. A Midsummer's Night Dream. London: William Heinemann, 1908. First trade edition: William Heinemann, London; Doubleday, Page & Co. New York, 1908. Quarto. Original tan cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, gilt titles and vignette to front cover. A very good copy, spine ends and tips lightly nicked. Colour frontispiece and 39 colour plates mounted on tan paper with captioned tissue guards, black and white drawings to the text, by Rackham. First Rackham edition. Latimore & Haskell p. 32; Riall p. 87.
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- Rackham, Arthur
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For over 30 years, we have served a clientele of collectors, private institutions, universities, and public libraries in acquisition and collection development. We are members of ILAB, ABAA, and PADA, and have furnished collections around the world with rare and unique material; from the personal letters of literary greats to first edition Journals of Congress to unique pamphlets from the civil rights era. We strive to find archives and original early printed material that can fill gaps in existing institutional holdings; the kind of material that can bring new perspectives to the traditionally disregarded voices of indigiouneous peoples, women, and African-Americans.
We pride ourselves on the ability to track down the rarest and most interesting material for our client's collections. The partnerships we form with libraries, institutions, and personal collectors begin with a phone call or an email and last for decades. We offer an unconditional guarantee for each item's authenticity and completeness.
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