• Publication: A Midsummer Night's DreamPublication Record # 385415
• Author: William Shakespeare
• Date: 1908-11-00
• Publisher: William Heinemann
• Price:
  15/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 134
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes: 1st ed. (for the 1908 Christmas season)

  • 40 leaves of plates, "chiefly colored", with additional drawings.
  • Ornamented front cover, stamped in gold.
  • Data from WorldCat library records, variant data noted here: OCLC: 63478821 -- as "A Midsummernight's Dream" -- as "London : Heinemann ; New York : Doubleday ; Page" Month from OCLC 476877182, a record of the 2nd printing (dates 4 printings 1908-11 to 1914-03) -- as "Arthur Rackham, R.W.S."
  • Price from review Manchester Guardian 1908-11-23 p4 10/6 "Christmas Books", under "Illustrated Reprints" (briefly comparative regarding Rackham's previous Christmas books and also Dulac's concurrent Tempest)
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 503898640 63478821

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• A Midsummer Night's Dream • [A Midsummer Night's Dream • 1] • (1600) • novella by William Shakespeare
•  A Midsummer Night's Dream • interior artwork by Arthur Rackham