87
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ARTHUR RACKHAM.
Shakespeare,William.
Le Songe d’une Nuit
d’Été.
French text. 40 tipped-in plates by
Rackham with lettered tissue guards,30 black-
and-white illustrations throughout. 4to,
rebound in full pebble grained evergreen
morocco, unevenly faded to brown on covers
and spine, extremities rubbed; some foxing to
bottom deckle, just extending into lower
margin of preliminaries; owner’s bookplates
(calling cards) mounted to front pastedown.
Paris: Hachette, 1909
[300/400]
FIRST LIMITED FRENCH EDITION OF A
MIDSUMMER NIGHT
’
S DREAM
.
NUMBER
301
OF
330
COPIES
.
88
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ARTHUR RACKHAM.
Group of 3 First Signed Limited Editions.
Illustrated
with color plates by Rackham. 4to,
1
/
4
vellum over cream boards, variously toned,
darkened, and rubbed; scattered light foxing otherwise contents quite clean.
London, vd
[700/1,000]
Swinburne.The Springtide of Life. 553/765 copies. Offsetting from colophon to half-title on verso.
(1918) * Some British Ballads.253/575 copies.(1919) * Milton.Comus.218/550 copies.(1921).
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W. HEATH ROB INSON.
Shakespeare, William.
Twelfth Night or
What You Will.
40 tipped-in color plates
by Robinson with lettered tissue guards.
4to, original gilt-pictorial vellum,moderately
worn and toned, few scratches on rear
cover, slightly bowed, lacking cloth ties;
frontispiece image a bit creased along bottom
and tissue guard loose; large bookplate on
pastedown.
FIRST LIMITED EDITION
.
NUMBER
55
OF
350
COPIES SIGNED BY ROBINSON
.
London, (1914)
[300/400]
WITH
—
France. Bee, The Princess of the
Dwarfs. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. First
Trade Edition. 8vo, gilt-pictorial white cloth;
lacks dust jacket. NewYork, 1912.
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