A Midsummer-Night's Dream

London and New York : William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co, 1929 A good copy in the original blue decorative cloth binding with 40 tipped-in colour plates and black and white illustrations and designs by Arthur Rackham. First published with Rackham illustrations in 1908, the work proved extremely popular and there were numerous reprints. The binding has nice bright boards. There is a very small mark on the front board. The spine is a little faded and marked. There is a little pulling to the spine and slight bumping to board corners. There is part of a wrapper for Midsummer Night's Dream loose inside the book but it looks slightly too small to have been the original wrapper for this book. There is a small ink inscription - Christmas 1935. To Peter with much love from Lorna' at the bottom of the fep. The text pages have some brown spotting - this is largely in the margins and is common with this work. The tissue-guarded plates are in very good condition - 2 have small creases in the bottom left hand corner.