A Midsummer Night's Dream Illustrated by Arthur Rackham and Gifted to Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

(London: William Heinemann and New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1929), 4to (10 in.), three-quarter leather over blue linen boards with gilt rules and spine; marbled endpapers, colored illustrations and line drawings throughout; the inside front cover with Chrysler's library plate; a letter giving the book to Chrysler is taped to the endpaper next to the half title, which has a note to Chrysler penned above the bookplate of a Georgiana T. W. Erdmann.

Private Collection, New Bern, North Carolina

Walter P. Chrysler Jr., son of the automobile maker, was a legendary student and collector of modern art.

Chips to the book's leather; the rear board disbound; internal age toning throughout; good estate condition.