A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare illustrated by Kevin Maddison
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Product information
Hardback with DJ. Ash & Grant First Edition 1982. 96 pages. 19.5 x 26cm.
In very good condition with no inscriptions. There is a gum mark on the front cover where a label has been which i am sure could be easily removed but I will leave that to the purchaser. Please feel free to ask questions.
".........Kevin Maddison's brilliant, frsh, water-colour paintings are a major edition to the great tradition of Shakesperian illustration. Beatrice Phillpotts, whose essay on the illustrators of A Midsummer Night's Dream appears in this book, comments that 'Kevin Maddison .... is both an adaptor and an innovator. The carefree good humour of his freewheeling fairyland harks back to Rackham and Heath Robinson. His Oberon, however, metamorphosed from an endearing magpie assortment of flora and fauna, breaks new ground and provides a powerful link with Shakespeare's original muses, the all-powerful nature spirits of ancient legend'
Superbly reproduced Kevin Maddison's illustration complements the full text of Shakespeare's play, to create an edition of A Midsummer Nigh'ts Dream which will be treasured by lovers of |Shakespeare, fine art and beautiful book illustration."