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A Midsummer-Night's Dream (1908)

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

 

 

On the left, we show a rare copy of A Midsummer-Night's Dream -

illustrated by Rackham and produced by William Heinemann

(London) in 1908.

 

This example retains the original decoratively gilt-stamped cream

cloth cover.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To the right, we show the decorative

Title Page designed by Rackham.

 

A Midsummer-Night's Dream is a romantic comedy emanating from the genius of William Shakespeare. It tells a

tale of four Athenian lovers, a group of amateur actors and their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of

Athens and the fairies who lived in a moonlit forest.

 

Rackham's illustrations for A Midsummer-Night's Dream (1908) capture the dreamy and romantically magical

character of Shakespeare's text brilliantly.

 

 

Our Greeting Cards and Reproduction Images

 

We have prepared sets of 40 Greeting Cards displaying each of Rackham's colour images for A Midsummer-Night's Dream and on the left, we show an example of how these Greeting Cards appear. Ordering one of those sets is as easy as selecting the "Add to Cart" feature below and following the prompts provided with our Shopping Cart secured through PayPal. Naturally, multiple purchases will be consolidated by that feature and shipping and handling costs to any destination in the world are accommodated by our flat-rate fee of US$20 for every US$200 worth of purchases.

 

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Price: US$200.00

When presented on Greeting Cards, these images are prepared as tipped-in plates - in homage to the hand-crafted

approach typical of prestige illustrated publications produced in the early decades of the 20th Century.

 

Hand-finishing is used to replicate the visual appearance of a tipped-in plate and the images are presented on

Ivory card stock (in the case of colour illustrations) or White card stock (in the case of monotone illustrations)

with an accompanying envelope. We have left the cards blank so that you may write your own personal

message.

 

Should you wish to order a Reproduction Print of one or more of these images, we have provided some

options below. Of course, should you wish to discuss some customised options, we welcome your contact

on any matter through ThePeople@SpiritoftheAges.com.

 

In the meantime, enjoy perusing these wonderful images from Arthur Rackham.

 

 

The colour illustrations

 

Frontispiece

Titania lying asleep

Act I, Scene I

... the moon, like to a silver bow

New-bent in heaven

 

 

Act I, Scene I

Hermia

Act I, Scene I

Helena

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Act I, Scene I

... where often you and I

Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie,

Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet

 

 

Act I, Scene II

Let me play the lion too

Act II, Scene I

How now, spirit! whither wander you?

Act II, Scene I

She never had so sweet a changeling

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Act II, Scene I

And now they never meet in grove or green,

By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen,

But they do square

 

 

Act II, Scene I

Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?

 

Act II, Scene I

I am that merry wanderer of the night

Act II, Scene I

... Fairies, away!

We shall chide downright, if I longer stay

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Act II, Scene I

To hear the sea-maid's music

 

 

Act II, Scene I

Maidens call it love-in-idleness

Act II, Scene I

Come, now a roundel

Act II, Scene I

And a fairy song

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Act II, Scene II

Some war with rere-mice for their

leathern wings

Act II, Scene II

To make my small elves coats

Act II, Scene II

Never harm,

Nor spell nor charm,

Come our lovely lady nigh

 

 

Act II, Scene II

One aloof stands sentinel

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Act III, Scene I

O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted.

Pray, masters! fly, masters! Help!

 

 

Act III, Scene I

"O Bottom, thou art changed!"

Act III, Scene I

I will sing, that they shall hear I am not afraid

Act III, Scene I

What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

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Act III, Scene I

Enter Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustardseed

Act III, Scene II

... russet-pated choughs, many in sort,

Rising and cawing at the gun's report

 

 

Act III, Scene II

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Act III, Scene II

Fair Helena, who more engilds the night

Than all yon fiery oes and eyes of light

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Act III, Scene II

She was a vixen when she went to school

Act III, Scene II

... ghosts, wandering here and there,

Troop home to churchyards

 

 

Act III, Scene II

Up and down, up and down,

Goblin, lead them up and down

Act III, Scene II

Never so weary, never so in woe

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Act III, Scene II

On the ground

Sleep sound:

I'll apply

To your eye,

Gentle lover, remedy

 

 

Act IV, Scene I

Kill me a red-hipped humble-bee

on the top of a thistle

Act IV, Scene I

Sleep thou, and I will wind

thee in my arms

Act IV, Scene I

... and her fairy sent

To bear him to my bower in fairy land

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Act IV, Scene I

We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top

And mark the musical confusion

Of hounds and echo in conjunction

Act IV, Scene I

... Are you sure

That we are awake? It seems to me

That yet we sleep, we dream

 

 

Act IV, Scene II

... almost fairy time

Act IV, Scene II

Through the house give glimmering light

By the dread and drowsy fire

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