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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
by RACKHAM. ARTHUR. Illustrates. ; SHAKESPEARE. WILLIAM
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Heinemann. London. 1929. REPRINT RACKHAM EDITION. 4to. (9.7 x 7.2 inches). Colour frontis and thirty nine tipped-in colour plates, each with a printed tissue paper guard. Thirty black and white illustrations, some full page, throughout the text. A lovely clean copy. Small crease to the bottom corner of the frontis plate otherwise a very good copy, Finely bound, for Henry Sotheran of London, in recent full dark brown Levant Morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Decorative gilt border roll on the inside of the boards. All edges gilt. Original blue cloth spine and both boards bound in at the back. A fine copy of this beautiful book. Rackham at his very best.
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- Bookseller
- Paul Foster Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10121
- Title
- A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
- Author
- RACKHAM. ARTHUR. Illustrates. ; SHAKESPEARE. WILLIAM
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann. London. 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine bindings; Children's and Illustrated books;
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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