![]() Spotting throughout, most concentrated to page perimeters. Rubbing to rear board, with mark to head of front board. Closed tear to cloth at back strip head, with small loss to the cloth. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. 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.Former owner's inscription to half title, with seven pages of advertisements to the rear. 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 by E. A smart copy of this delightfully illustrated edition of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedies of manners. ![]()
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