Rhodes Crompton Editor (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First And Limited Edition. slipcase good only. includes poem a portrait which may or may not be by sheridan.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Covers have some wear and tear corners are lightly bumped and signs of shelf wear tops of spines have wear, Volume I has a cracked binding at rear cover, Vol II spine has a small split at the bottom of spine. Previous owners nameplate is in each vol, and previous owners nameplate has been removed.

46pp. 8vo Marbled boards and cream boards back Ode to Scandal first printed in 1819, now reprinted for the first time with author's name from a fuller version, published anonymously in 1781 from the only known copy. The portrait was written in 1777, appeared surreptitiously in 1810. Ex-library with owner's and college bookplates, spine rubbed/lightly torn, cover extremities rubbed: VG/no dj.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A smart three volume set of this collection of works from Anglo-Irish writer Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan. Complete in three volumes. With a portrait frontispiece to each volume. The plays and poetry of Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan, an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812. The owner of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London, he wrote several prominent plays. This collection includes titles such as: The Rivals, St. Patrick's Day, The Duenna, A Trip to Scarborough, The School for Scandal, The Critic, The Camp, The Forty Thieves, Pizarro, and Clio's Protest, amongst others. Edited by Raymond Crompton Rhodes, a British author, editor, and historian best known as a Shakespearean scholar. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges with the odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. book.