Richard Brinsley Sheridan — The School for Scandal

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. Cloth. 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. Undated, dated through copies held at the British Library. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Gilt remains bright to the front board. A little fading to the spine. Frontispiece and title page are detached but intact. Otherwise, internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first and last couple of pages and to the fore edge, affecting the occasional page. Offsetting to the end papers. Good . Ill.: Hugh Thomson. Good .