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SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816). The School for Scandal. A Comedy. Dublin: N.p., 1780.
12° (166 x 95 mm). Inverted “B” in the imprint on the title-page. (Lacking final advertisement leaf, as often.) Modern calf; morocco slipcase. Provenance: Margaret Dunn (ownership inscription on title-page dated Janr. 3, 178?); Harold Greenhill (bookplate); Sylvain S. Brunschwig (morocco monogrammed bookplate; his sale Parke Bernet, 9 April 1951, lot 194); Robert H. Taylor (1908-1985) American book collector, noted Sheridan collector (bookplate).
FIRST (PIRATED) EDITION with the following points: the “B” in the Dublin in the imprint on the title is inverted and out of alignment; the word Scandal in the headlines on pp. 19 and 49 is mis-spelled “Scandel”; the names of the actors are not given. Both this edition and the Dublin edition published by J. Ewing (see lot 148) were piracies. "A publisher immediately offered five hundred guineas for a corrected copy of the comedy, and Sheridan promised to prepare it for the press…[which never appears to have reached the printer, because he] 'had never been able to satisfy himself as to the version which he wished to be published'" (Grolier English 59). VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only one copy has sold in the last 30 years: Sotheby’s New York, 1 May 1990, lot 3199. ESTC N21592; Rothschild 1845.
12° (166 x 95 mm). Inverted “B” in the imprint on the title-page. (Lacking final advertisement leaf, as often.) Modern calf; morocco slipcase. Provenance: Margaret Dunn (ownership inscription on title-page dated Janr. 3, 178?); Harold Greenhill (bookplate); Sylvain S. Brunschwig (morocco monogrammed bookplate; his sale Parke Bernet, 9 April 1951, lot 194); Robert H. Taylor (1908-1985) American book collector, noted Sheridan collector (bookplate).
FIRST (PIRATED) EDITION with the following points: the “B” in the Dublin in the imprint on the title is inverted and out of alignment; the word Scandal in the headlines on pp. 19 and 49 is mis-spelled “Scandel”; the names of the actors are not given. Both this edition and the Dublin edition published by J. Ewing (see lot 148) were piracies. "A publisher immediately offered five hundred guineas for a corrected copy of the comedy, and Sheridan promised to prepare it for the press…[which never appears to have reached the printer, because he] 'had never been able to satisfy himself as to the version which he wished to be published'" (Grolier English 59). VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only one copy has sold in the last 30 years: Sotheby’s New York, 1 May 1990, lot 3199. ESTC N21592; Rothschild 1845.