[CRANFORD SERIES] SULLIVAN, Edmund J. (illustrator). R.B. SHERIDAN (playwright). School for Scandal and The Rivals. London; Macmillan And Co. Ltd. 1896.
8vo. Original dark green cloth very prettily decorated in gilt to spine and upper board, all edges gilt; pp. xxvii, [xviii-xx], [3]-365 + [vi], publisher's catalogue; attractively illustrated throughout after fine engravings by Edmund J. Sullivan; externally near fine with a couple of minute, and almost invisible, surface nicks to cloth at head of spine (each 1mm); internally very fresh with some browning to frontispiece tissue-guard, which has slightly offset to title, and very occasional and very pale internal foxing, otherwise fine, without inscription and with previous owner's neat booklabel (Neville W. Wilthew) to inner upper board.
First edition illustrated thus, produced in Macmillan's famous, and highly collectable, Cranford Series.
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