From Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since July 26, 1999
About this Item
Signed limited edition, number 438 of 1,000 copies signed by the illustrator Arthur Rackham, for sale in Great Britain and Ireland. In A Midsummer Night's Dream Rackham "developed his gift for drawing witches, gnomes, fairies, and anthropomorphized trees and brought them to a pitch of vivid characterization, sometimes with an unsettling frisson of horror" (ODNB). Latimore & Haskell, p. 32; Riall, p. 87. Quarto (273 x 221 mm). Mid-20th-century blue morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine lettered in gilt, compartments and covers panelled in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Colour frontispiece and 39 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards mounted on heavy brown paper, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham; title page printed in olive-green & black. Light spotting on occasion to contents; still a fine copy in a handsome binding. Seller Inventory # 142423
Bibliographic Details
Title: A Midsummer-Night's Dream.
Publisher: London: William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1908
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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