A Midsummer-Night's Dream By William Shakespeare
London & New York: William Heinemann & Doubleday, Page, 1908. hardcover. 134 pages. 4to, 30 x 24 cm. Limited edition signed by Rackham with no limitation stated. Forty tipped-in full-page mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards, plus black and white illustrations in the text. "His interpretations of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and WIND IN THE WILLOWS, for example, have become definitive, and continue to challenge later illustrators to find new approaches." [see: HAMILTON. p.9 "Arthur Rackham A Biography"]. Toning [approx. half centimeter fore-edge and foot] of title, front cover lightly soiled, lacks ties. Orig. decorated cream colored cloth. Teg. Very good. Item #20143
Price: $1,550.00