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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by Shakespeare, William & W. Heath Robinson (Illust. )
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. Near Fine. 2010. Hardcover (leather) in box. Easton Press Deluxe Limited Edition; Color Plates and b&w drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 187 pages; 2010 Easton Press. Lushly produced limited edition, reproduces in facsimile the 1914 Constable edition illustrated with color plates and pen drawings by W. Heath Robinson. This Easton Press Deluxe edition issued in an edition limited to 250 copies; this copy is hand numbered 140 on the limitation leaf and on the COA laid in at front. Handsomely bound in full leather with pictorial design blocked in several colors to cover; hubbed spine, silk bookmarks and hand marbled endpages. Color plates from paintings by Robinson are tipped in on gilt ruled leaves with lettered tissue guards. Tightly bound and fresh. Enclosed in a folding green cloth clam shell box with titles brightly in gilt to the spine edge. A mild white smudge to the cloth along the bottom edge of the front (lid) side; apparently some bookshelf paint had adhered and been rubbed away by the original owner. All else quite Fine ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46368
- Title
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Author
- Shakespeare, William & W. Heath Robinson (Illust. )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (leather) in box
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 2010
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Easton; Franklin; Folio Society bindings; Decorative bindings;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Leaves
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Facsimile
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- Tipped In
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