The sources and analogues of "A Midsummer-night's dream"
A 1908 scholarly study by Frank Sidgwick, published in New York by Duffield and in London by Chatto and Windus, tracing the literary sources and analogues behind Shakespeare's A Midsummer-night's Dream. The pictures are small printed devices rather than scenes: a library seal dated 1800, a heraldic shield with a crest and motto ribbon, and a framed portrait of Shakespeare labelled as a classics series emblem. A designer could take from them the look of early twentieth-century publisher's marks and bookplate-style emblems, with their ornate frames, ribbons and engraved line work.
