RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – William SHAKESPEARE. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. London
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – William SHAKESPEARE. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. London: William Heinemann, 1908. First trade edition, 4to (249 x 182mm.) 40 tipped-in plates with captioned tissue-guards, numerous uncoloured illustrations. (Light spotting to endpapers and half-title, toning.) Original beige cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (lightly rubbed extremities, minor mark to upper cover). – And a further four illustrated volumes (including William Edmondstoune Aytoun’s ‘Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems’, 1863, 4to, and Charles Johnson’s ‘A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates’, 1926, 8vo) (5).
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). – William SHAKESPEARE. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. London: William Heinemann, 1908. First trade edition, 4to (249 x 182mm.) 40 tipped-in plates with captioned tissue-guards, numerous uncoloured illustrations. (Light spotting to endpapers and half-title, toning.) Original beige cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (lightly rubbed extremities, minor mark to upper cover). – And a further four illustrated volumes (including William Edmondstoune Aytoun’s ‘Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems’, 1863, 4to, and Charles Johnson’s ‘A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates’, 1926, 8vo) (5).
