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London, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount,, 1623. The full text of A Midsummer Night's Dream from the First Folio, 9 leaves of text, numbered pp. 145-162, supplied with a handwritten title leaf. Marginal manuscript ink note or symbol to recto of N3 (p. 149); mispagination of recto of N5 (number 151 repeated) corrected to page 153 in an early hand; small stain to verso of N6; recto of O3 misnumbered 163 and corrected to 161 in manuscript. Bound in 1920s red crushed morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, small scorch mark on upper cover, otherwise excellent, cloth slipcase. The play was first published in quarto in 1600 and 1619; a copy of the 1619 edition was annotated and used as a printer's copy for the publication of the 1623 folio, with some changes made to words of dialogue and stage directions, and with the substitution of Egeus for Philostrate in Act 5 scene 1. The quarto editions are rare: the first, of 1600, survives in only eight copies, all of which are in public…

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Russian: Сон смешного человека) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who believes nothing has any value and is ripe with existential insights into human life and a reformation of spirit.