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Lot 96
Sale 2635 - Books and Manuscripts
May 3, 2023
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Live / Philadelphia
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$1,764
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[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Shakespeare, William A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
London: William Heinemann/New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908. First and limited edition, #547/1,000 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. 4to. (viii), 134 pp., (1) p. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 40 color plates, all mounted and all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's deluxe full vellum, decorated in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; silk ties renewed; some scattered light foxing; prelims toned; offsetting to tissue guards and pages opposite heavy brown paper; in quarter vellum over Japanese vellum fall-down-back box. Latimore & Haskell, p. 32; Riall, p. 87
A lovely copy.