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A Midsommer Nights Dreame [A Midsummer Night's Dream]

Shakespeare, William

[London]: Thomas Cotes, 1632.

Extracted from the Second Folio Edition. Comprising 18 pages (pp. 145-162) on 9 leaves, N-O6 (-O4-6). Text in two columns; one woodcut headpiece, one initial. (Folio) 30.5x20 cm (12" x 8"), in somewhat modern quarter calf & marbled boards with spine label lettered in gilt. Near Fine. Contents toned with age, owner name and date to front paste down, a 3/4" tear to the top edge of first two leaves, a handful of marginal old ink and pencil "X" marks, small stain to headpiece. Edges trimmed fairly close to margins.

Shakespeare's truly timeless comedy as it appeared in the first revised edition of Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, published nine years after the First Folio, with 1,700 changes to text, correcting errors and updating language. Item #140942819

Price: $15,000.00