Arthur Rackham MIDSUMMER NIGHT DREAM, fairy SHAKESPEARE
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*** A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare Written out by
Graily Hewitt Illustrated by
Arthur Rackham First UK Rackham edition with these illustrations, in the original dust jacket Published byGeorge Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited, London 1977 (from 1928 MS .) *** First edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, as written out by Graily Hewitt, illustrated by Arthur Rackham and published by George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited, London in 1977. Printed in America. Large hardback in dust jacket, red cloth boards with gilt decorations to front, gilt lettering to spine, 15 full-page colour illustrations (many blank to reverse), illustrated colour title page, 1 half-page colour illustration, numerous line drawings (some printed in sepia), unpaginated. Approximate size 12.2 x 9.3 inches (31 x 23.7 cm). Two decades after his 1908 masterpiece A Midsummer Night’s Dream had been published, the inimitable Arthur Rackham was commissioned by the William Augustus Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library – a collection “of the finest illustrated books that can be procured, of any country and in any language” – to produce a special, unique manuscript copy of Shakespeare ’ s celebrated fairy play, completely different in content from his earlier version. According to a letter written by Rackham to
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