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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by WILLIAM SKAKESPEARE, ARTHUR RACKHAM (ILLUSTRATOR)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First Edition thus. Undated, c.1916. Features 16 color plates by Rackham, each beautifully rich with subdued colors and featuring Rackham at his most magical; fine tissue guards w/printed captions. Illustrations produced by the Hentschel Color-Type Process. Additionally, includes full and partial page B&W imagery, headers, tailpieces, and decorative designs throughout. For the age, very good olive green full-cloth boards, gilt embossed cover and spine design, titles. Mild shelf wear and rubbing on the top front cover. Some foxing throughout. Front board features mounted plate of maidens with fairy quartet. Color frontispiece plate of Titiana Lying Asleep; fine with tissue guard and printed caption. Pages generally very good plus; clean, with no writing. 134 pp. Overall, a very nice copy.
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- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31596
- Title
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Author
- WILLIAM SKAKESPEARE, ARTHUR RACKHAM (ILLUSTRATOR)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1916
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ILLUSTRATED
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
Terms of Sale
Grinning Cat Books
Fourteen (14) day return guarantee, for any reason, and we pay return shipping costs if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Grinning Cat Books
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Potomac, Maryland
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- Rubbing
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- Gilt
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Shelf Wear
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- 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....
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