The School For Scandal
Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. Publisher's Cloth Binding. 4to. Publisher's original lavender full cloth binding with heavily gilt design and title on fron cover and gilt title and minor embellishments on spine, all the work of the work's artist, Hught Thomson. A lovely copy of Sheridan's successful comedy of manners, with delightful colour illustrations by Hugh Thomson. An illustrated work in the publisher's original decorative cloth binding, with pictorial gilt to the front board and spine. Illustrated with twenty-five tipped-in colour images and many in-text drawings by Hugh Thomson, best known for his pen-and-ink illustrations of works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and J. M. Barrie. Collated, complete.One of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's most popular plays, a comedy of manners which follows Lady Sneerwell, a wealthy young widow, and her hireling Snake in their various scandal-spreading plots. First performed in Drury Lane Theatre in London in 1777. Binding square and in good condition, light bumpling on front lower edge and small indent on rear cover not impairing enjoyment of this classic. Very Good. Item #9153
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