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.

Lightly tanned wrappers

Pages bright

The boards are straight

an active associate and supporter of the Bloomsbury Group

Jacket has been covered in plastic

Chipped extremities

Page block spotted

which is now protected by removable archival cover

uniform sun-fading to the spine panel

The spine panel remains bright and unfaded

and in return

Publisher: William Collins Sons & Co