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Shakespeare's Comedy Of A Midsummer-Night's Dream With Illustrations By W. Heath-Robinson [Signed by the Artist W Heath Robinson – Numbered Limited Edition]

Book Description

London: Constable & Co., 1914, Signed Numbered Limited Edition. Signed by the illustrator, limited edition of which this is number 239. Half leather binding, gilt titles on twin labels, 5 raised gilt bands. Beautiful specimen of an Illustrated Book [ROBINSON, W. Heath, illustrator]. SHAKESPEARE, [William]. Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-Night's Dream. With Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. 1/250 copies signed by W. Heath Robinson (this copy being number 239). Twelve mounted colour plates, forty-six full-page and seventeen smaller black and white drawings. Collated and complete. Plate at page 32 bound in at page 1. Black and white illustrations included in the pagination (front and blank reverse), colour plates not part of the pagination. xii, [iv], 185pp. Approximately 12 inches tall.

Dealer Notes

Externally

Spine – good condition – gilt titles on two labels, 5 raised gilt bands, 6 compartments.
Joints – good condition – sound.
Corners – good condition.
Boards – good condition – half leather and marbled boards.
Page edges – good condition – top edge bright orange, fore ad bottom edges lightly tanned and uncut.
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Internally

Hinges – good condition – intact.
Paste downs – good condition – plain green.
End papers – good condition – plain green.
Title – good condition – illustrated title page, lightly tanned.
Pages – good condition – Signed Limited Edition, limitation page prior to the frontispiece, coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and b/w illustrations throughout, lightly tanned.
Binding – good condition.
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Author William Shakespeare

Date 1914

Binding Half Leather Binding

Publisher London: Constable & Co.

Illustrator Heath W. Robinson

Condition Good

Price: £1200.00

Offered by Louis 88 Books

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