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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.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Printing of this edition with the delightful illustrations of W. Heath Robinson, in illustrated blue gray cloth boards, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright & unfoxed, all tipped-in plates present, boards rubbed & lightly soiled with fraying & a bit of loss to cloth at spine top, corners just beginning to fray, spine darkened but titles legible, neat name to second white page, an overall Very Good copy of this scare beautifully-illustrated edition; 4to; (xvi) 187pp illus. Extra shipping charge may be incurred for this oversize book (additional charge MAY BE SUBSTANTIAL for overseas shipment)
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$299.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover book in very good condition. Decorated blue cloth boards. Small white spot on front board, slight edgewear and small missing spot at the bottom of the spine. Pages and illustrations are bright, clean. Binding is tight. A beautiful copy. Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If buying internationally, please be aware that additional charges may apply for heavier books. We guarantee a safe, quick, and secure transaction. 10+ years in online bookselling experience.
Seller: Encore Books, Montreal, QC, Canada
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.
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.