[Rarebooks] fa: COMEDIES 1781-1834: SHERIDAN, SCRIBE &c. - 5 PLAYS in 1 VOL./PERIOD CALF

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with other 17th, 18th, & 19th-century titles, auctions ending Sunday, Sept. 30. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.


Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed. London: Beckett, 1781. [BOUND WITH:] Eugene Scribe: Bertrand et Raton ou L'Art de Conspirer. Paris: Barba, 1834. [BOUND WITH:] Alfred Bunn: The Minister and the Mercer. London: Miller, 1834. [BOUND WITH:] The Earl of Glengall: The Follies of Fashion. London: Colburn and Bentley, 1830. [BOUND WITH:] [George Soane:] Pride Shall Have a Fall. London: Hurst, Robinson, 1824.

An eclectic collection of five plays bound together in one handsome volume. Thick 8vo (21.5 cm) in full period calf with gilt-lettered spine and morocco spine label, marbled endpapers and page edges. All but the first play with half-titles. From the library at Encombe House, Dorset, seat of the Scotts, Earls of Eldon, with a bookplate bearing the family's heraldic devices and motto (Sit sine labe decus: "Let honour be without stain"). Joints professionally repaired, slight cracking between the blank front flyleaf and a general title-page printed and bound in by the original owner; title-page of the last play with the inscription "Encombe 1824"; newspaper review of a production of Scribe's play glued onto the verso of the half-title of the play following it; mild spotting to a few leaves; else clean and sound, firmly bound.