![]() Your purchase passes forward your love of literature - all proceeds are donated to literacy programs in our local community and around the globe. Import duties, taxes, and customs fees are buyer's responsibility. Zoom in on our photos - at Mountain House Fine Books you see the lovely books you're buying! International purchases: Actual shipping costs may be higher or lower - please email for a quote. The ends of the ribbon bookmark are soiled. Pages are clean with no water damage, no markings, no writing, and no tears. ![]() Top gilt edge aged some foxing on endpapers and frontispiece. The endpapers are beginning to separate from the spine at the lower ends, but binding is square and holding well. CONDITION DETAILS (see our photos of actual book for sale): The corners and edges of the soft red leather covers are rubbed, especially along the spine which is heavily worn and has split along the covers the gilt title on the spine is still bright and readable. Please check other Mountain House Fine Books listings to find more titles from this special set. Midsummer Nights Dream Shakespeare Antique Vintage Little Leather Library Book Quantity. A slender sewn-in ribbon bookmark allows you to mark the page of your favorite Shakespeare quote. Page edges in this edition are smoothly cut. The title page is richly illustrated and typeset in black and red, with lovely red act & scene markings continuing throughout the text. The text in this Temple Shakespeare series volume is the Cambridge edition, and includes a glossary, notes, and a preface written by Sir Israel Gollancz, an early 20th century Shakespeare scholar. A frontispiece illustration of the "Old Globe at Southwarke" is faced with a protective tissue the tissue is printed with a poem to Shakespeare written by Sir Aston Cokain, a seventeenth century playwright. The endpapers display a colored version of the Shakespeare family heraldry along with their motto "Non Sans Droict" (Not Without Right). If you're looking for a special volume of a Shakespeare play to celebrate a memorable theater performance, mark a milestone anniversary, or commemorate a child's first delightful experience with the bard, this petite volume is the perfect gift! This charming little book is bound in soft burgundy leather covers with gilt page tops, bright gilt title on spine, and the Shakespeare family coat of arms on the front cover in bright gilt.
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