A Midsummer-night's dream

Features

Author:  William Shakespeare, Arthur Rackham

Publisher:  William Heinemann Ltd.

Place of printing:  London

Year of publication:  1908

Product Condition:
Linen editorial binding with gilded titles on the spine and on the front plate; gilded figured engraving on the front plate; back burnished, dust spots and pale brown spots on the plates, signs of wear at the edges and corners; cut at the top of the hinge of the rear plate; rumpled headphones. Burnished cuts with dust spots; head cuts are particularly darkened. Slightly burnished papers well preserved; well preserved tables, the papers on which they are applied have been burnished; tear without failings to the tissue of the table in the antiporta. English text. Text in English. Book in good condition.

Pages:  (8), 134, (2)

Format:  In the eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  26
Width:  19

Description

First edition of the Shakespearean masterpiece beautifully illustrated by 41 color plates applied on strong paper and protected by talking tissues and by numerous engravings in b / w nt and ft. The illustrator is Arthur Rackham, one of the protagonists of the so-called “Golden Age” of English illustration, which goes from 1890 to the Great War. Rackham had inaugurated his unmistakable graphic style with the illustration of Irving's Rip Van Winkle in 1905 and since then he has been engaged in the illustration of numerous masterpieces of Anglo-Saxon literature with his style between Art Nouveau and ancient suggestions related to a Celtic world populated by fairies and elves.

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