Author: SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY
Title: The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Everyman's Library #95)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1909. Hardcover. A 1909 reprint of the 1906 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition offering all major plays indisputably written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), known for his ".construction of amusing situations, and in a sparkling flow of witty dialogue which never flags" (per Ross, p.458). Plays include "The Rivals", "St. Patrick's Day, or The Scheming Lieutenant", "The Duenna", "A Trip to Scarborough", "The School for Scandal", "The Critic, or A Tragedy Rehearsed" and "Pizarro." Everyman's Library #95, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In 'flatback' binding style 1, full olive cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, brown topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Lacks a dust jacket. --- With acidic stains to endpapers and moderately shaken binding, otherwise a clean, sound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; ix, 411 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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