[Rarebooks] FA: Shakespeare Head Press -1930 School for Scandal

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

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"THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL"  by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Published in Oxford 
by the Shakespeare Head Press in 1930, in an edition limited to 475 copies 
on hand-made paper. A beautiful fine press edition on hand-made paper by 
the Shakespeare Head Press, edited by R. Crompton Rhodes, with 
illustrations and decorations by Thomas Lowinsky.

THE PRESS: The Shakespeare Head Press was founded in 1904 by Elizabethan 
scholar A.H. Bullen, to produce fine-press editions of Shakespeare. After 
Bullen's death in 1927 the press was bought by a partnership who hired 
Bernard Newdigate as typographer, and the press worked in the William 
Morris Arts & Crafts tradition.

THE AUTHOR: Richard Brinsley Sheridan [1751-1816] was a Dublin-born 
lawyer-turned-playwright whose works included "The Rivals", and "School for 
Scandal". In 1780 he quit the theatre and went into politics, eventually 
serving as a minister under William Pitt, and becoming an outspoken 
supporter of the French Revolution.

THE ILLUSTRATOR: India-born Thomas Lowinsky was a popular artist and book 
illustrator who had a knack for blending his illustrations to the text. He 
illustrated books for the Nonesuch Press, the Curwen Press, the Shakespeare 
Head Prss, and many others, and his art is in the collection of the Tate 
Gallery.

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