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BURGOYNE, Lorna / SHAKESPEARE, William
BURGOYNE, Lorna Midsummer Night's Dream
Simplin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1919.
First edition with Burgoyne's illustrations. Folio. Original olive cloth lettered and decorated in gilt to the upper board. Colour frontis, 5 further colour illustrations and 34 line full page line drawings by Lorna Burgoyne. A near fine copy, clean and bright, tissue guard caption on p113 printed upside down.
An unusual presentation of Shakespeare's fairy romance with influence of India and Egyptian art seen in some of the colour plates, despite the artist originating from Devon.
Stock ID: 45290
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