Sale 2497 - Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics, January 29, 2019

50 c   (RACKHAM, ARTHUR.) Shakespeare, William. A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream. 40 tipped-in color plates by Rackham with lettered tissue guards; black- and-white illustrations. 4to, rebound in full blue morocco gilt, spine lightly and evenly faded; all edges trimmed and gilt, scattered minor foxing to text leaves, split before half- title. first english trade edition . London: Heinemann, 1908   [400/600] 51 c   SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM / HATHERELL, WILLIAM. Romeo and Juliet. 22 tipped-in color plates with lettered tissue guards and numerous black-and-white illustrations by William Hatherell. Thick 8vo, publisher’s gilt-pictorial green cloth, spine evenly faded with slight wrinkling and faint rubbing with fading on verso along spine; bookplate with toning to facing leaf. First Trade Edition with the Hatherell illustrations. New York and London; Hodder & Stoughton, (1912)   [200/300] 52 c   WHISTLER, REX / ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Andersen. Illustrations by Whistler throughout. 8vo, publisher’s elaborately gilt cream cloth; all edges trimmed and gilt; custom felt-lined case, worn; book and contents bright. one of 200 unnumbered copies signed by whistler on the half-title. London: Cobden-Sanderson, Ltd., (1935)   [300/400] 51 52 50