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The School for Scandal and the Rivals
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The School for Scandal and the Rivals Cloth - 1896

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first

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London: Macmillan and Co , 1896 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Edmund J. Sullivan. A lovely copy of this delightfully illustrated edition of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedies of manners. The first edition thus, illustrated by E. J. Sullivan. A beautifully illustrated edition of eighteenth century satirist, politician and playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan's two best known plays, 'The School for Scandal' and 'The Rivals', both popular comedies of manners. The first edition thus.Illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-nine further illustrated plates from Edmund Joseph Sullivan, an illustrated recognised as a member of the Art Nouveau movement of book illustration.With the illustrated bookplate of Hugh Charles Knowles to the front pastedown, and with seven pages of advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely, with bumping to back strip head and tail. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with areas of significant spotting and foxing to the first half of the work. Very Good
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