[Hand Colored] The Comedy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare, William. The Comedy of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. London: Freemantle & Co., 1901. Specially decorated throughout for children and with an introduction by Mrs. Herbert Railton (Fanny Railton). Title-page printed in red and black. With illustrated half-title, frontispiece, illustrations throughout, and chapter headings, all lovingly hand-colored.

Publisher’s tan pictorial cloth, front cover stamped in green and black with fairy seated on a mushroom before a moon and toadstools, lettered above and below; spine lettered in black. 

Measures approx. 7.25" x 8.75". Cloth soiled with some light wear to edges, with rubbing and scratching to cover illustration, corners bumped and worn, and some minor wear to spine tips. Front cover slightly bowed; some gatherings a bit shaken and showing at gutters. Contents with scattered foxing, heaviest to preliminaries and margins.