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. A Midsummer Night's Dream 12 plates Heath Robinson 1st ed 1914. Henry Holt and Company, 1914.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This book is in good condition. There is a bookplate in the front and no signatures or markings of any other kind. There is a small chip to the spine, shown above. The gilt lettering and decoration are bright and unrubbed. This book contains all 12 of Robinson's original tipped-in color illustrations, with none missing or removed. They are all in excellent condition and have their original tissue guards. The pages are clean and fre of foxing foxing. This is a first edition, printed by Henry Holt and Company in 1914. A rare find complete with many beautiful illustrations.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Violet covers are mostly clean, with gilt text and illustration Quarter leatherbound. Boards show some aging, a faint stain lower front cover. Corners are sharp. Please see photographs for details of condition. Spine covered in light calf is sunned with stains; with firm ends. Binding is strong. Pastedowns and feps have some light foxing, bookseller marks. Frontispiece is present and has intact tissue guard. Illustrations are bright and clear, plates are tipped-in. Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits marginal toning, light foxing throughout. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges have deckle fore and foot edges, gilt along head.** PS2022.0810** 187 pages. 8.75 x 11 inches** Shakespeare's comedy of love and enchantment, in a handsome edition copiously illustrated by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944). A mix of styles; the color plates are delicate and Art Deco; the black and white illustrations show Heath Robinson's gift for cartooning and depiction of character traits.** Published both in London and New York; printed by Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Td., Printers, London and Tonbridge.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009479"**
Seller: Panoply Books, Lambertville, NJ, U.S.A.
Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummers Night's Dream. Henry Holt Pub, 1914.
Price: US$320.00 + shipping
Description: 185pp. Light wear to extremities, 3 very small holes to spine else very good condition. Previous owner's gift Inscription. Book is as described - all defects and marks are noted. A very nice copy. All 12 color plates present. Some pages unopened.
Seller: Jeffrey Blake, Willow Grove, PA, U.S.A.
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Henry Holt, New York, 1914.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st US ed. 4to blue gray cloth printed in green. 16 tipped-in color plates and numerous line drawings both full and partial page by W. Heath Robinson. Professionally rebacked, toning to endpapers and mild soiling to covers, no previous owner's marks.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$884.00 + shipping
Description: 292 x 225 mm. (11 1/2 x 8 3/4"). xii, [2], 185, [3] pp. Very pleasing red morocco, covers with gilt border, raised bands, spine gilt in panels with fleurons at center and corners, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. With numerous black & white illustrations, 32 of them full-page, and 12 COLOR PLATES mounted on heavy stock, all by W. Heath Robinson. âOccasional mild foxing, but an excellent copy, clean and bright internally, and in an unworn binding. This is an attractively bound copy of Shakespeare's most widely-performed comedy, with appropriately whimsical color plates and numerous black & white illustrations by William Heath Robinson. Featuring gorgeous coloring and an overall dream-like appearance, Robinson's plates are quite reminiscent of the work of fellow "Golden Age" illustrators Edmund Dulac and Arthur Rackham, and they are perfectly suited for a play about love and enchantment. The black & white illustrations, on the other hand, demonstrate Robinson's talent for caricature--a skill that he would continue to perfect throughout his career. Robinson (1872-1944) was born into a family of artists and illustrators, and, according to his autobiography, from an early age he knew that he "did not want to be anything else than an artist." Though he had at first set his mind to becoming a landscape painter, it was in the realm of book illustration and humorous drawings where Robinson found his greatest successes. He is best known for a series of cartoons illustrating absurdly complicated machines for accomplishing relatively easy tasks--in fact, they were so popular that the term "Heath Robinson contraption" became a part of modern parlance. The binding here adds more than a touch of luxury to an already lovely work.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.