A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare, Heinemann, 1908, forty tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, including frontispiece, letterpress illustrations, endpapers spotted, bookplate of Richard Adams on front pastedown, original gilt decorated tan cloth, darkened spine worn (split joints and ends frayed, 2" vertical crease), 4to, together with Lathrop (Dorothy P., illustrator) , Down-Adown-Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems by Walter de la Mare, 1922, three colour plates, including frontispiece, numerous letterpress illustrations, many full-page, some spotting (mostly to edges), free endpapers browned, front free endpaper with contemporary inscription, top edges gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine ends slightly rubbed, and covers faintly mottled in places, large 8vo, plus Pogany (Willy, illustrator) , Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, George G. Harrap, circa 1920s, sixteen tipped-in colour plates, first and final leaves spotted, lacking front free endpaper, untrimmed, original decorated brown cloth, in stained and chipped dustjacket (verso printed for a copy of Jane Eyre published by Harrap), plus five other illustrated children's books, including a copy of A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson illustrated by Charles Robinson published by The Bodley Head, with bookplate of Richard Adams Riall, page 87. (8)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare, Heinemann, 1908, forty tipped-in colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, including frontispiece, letterpress illustrations, endpapers spotted, bookplate of Richard Adams on front pastedown, original gilt decorated tan cloth, darkened spine worn (split joints and ends frayed, 2" vertical crease), 4to, together with Lathrop (Dorothy P., illustrator) , Down-Adown-Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems by Walter de la Mare, 1922, three colour plates, including frontispiece, numerous letterpress illustrations, many full-page, some spotting (mostly to edges), free endpapers browned, front free endpaper with contemporary inscription, top edges gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine ends slightly rubbed, and covers faintly mottled in places, large 8vo, plus Pogany (Willy, illustrator) , Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, George G. Harrap, circa 1920s, sixteen tipped-in colour plates, first and final leaves spotted, lacking front free endpaper, untrimmed, original decorated brown cloth, in stained and chipped dustjacket (verso printed for a copy of Jane Eyre published by Harrap), plus five other illustrated children's books, including a copy of A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson illustrated by Charles Robinson published by The Bodley Head, with bookplate of Richard Adams Riall, page 87. (8)
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