"A Midsummer-Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare and illustrated by Arthur Rackham William Heinemann, London - 1919 illustrated Rackham edition - 40 colored plates and in-text illustrations by Arthur Rackham - condition: good, in original blue cloth with Rackham gilded illustration on front board, with rubbing to boards and spine, wear to spine lining, page foxing, all illustrations present. "Arthur Rackham's fanciful imagination gave his illustrations instant recognition, and his dedication to illustration kept him in the public eye for 30 years" (Hodnett, 233). His designs for this edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream "became the standard by which subsequent illustrations of Shakespeare's play have been judged" (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 204). The play held a lifelong fascination for the artist, who declared years later, "I should like to [illustrate] it any number of times" (Hamilton, 167). Fragile original silk ties laid in loose. Riall, 87. Latimore & Haskell, 32. Dalby, 77.