Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. First thus.1908. William Heinemann. First trade Edition. Very Good minus. Lacking the very scarce dust wrapper. Firm binding. Moderate spotting to prelims, and mild spotting to page extremities throughout. Some prelims pages are uncut. All tissue guards are present. Boards lightly tanned, spine edges show splitting, but holding together.

Binding firm

neat personal acquisition mark in pencil to the front free endpaper: "BJK 1989"

Binding: Hardcover with Original Dustwrapper (Dust Jacket)

Bright green boards with gilt lettering to spine

Jacket design by Biro

Internals are exceptionally clean

it displays the philosophical seriousness and comic cruelty that mark her strongest fiction of the period

which is now protected by removable archival cover

Secker & Warburg

Complete in Six Volumes

Irwin-Carruthers

uncommon in collectable condition