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1911 The School for Scandal
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
Illustrated with twenty-four tipped-in colour images and many in-text drawings. Lacking the frontispiece due to loss of title page. A comedy of manners written first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre in 1777, following Lady Sneerwell, a wealthy young widow, and her hireling Snake in their various scandal-spreading plots. Written by Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan, an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who owner the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, an Irish Illustrator best known for his pen-and-ink illustrations. Dated from the British Library.
Condition
In the original full cloth binding with gilt. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the spine. Front hinge starting but firm with title page detached. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers.
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