A TRAITOR'S KISS: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Pp. xii+516, notes, index; med. 8vo; dark blue boards, spine lettered in silver, a couple of tiny bruises to edges of boards; dust wrapper, lightly foxed (mainly on reverse); book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, a little light foxing; Granta Books, London, 1997. First edition. *'Dramatist, politician, theatrical entrepreneur, philanderer, duellist and revolutionary . . . . Sheridan can only be understood in all his strangeness as an Irish writer, a dissident and a complicated man who walked a thin line between glorious success in London and extreme danger as a supporter of independence for Ireland and democratic reform in England' [wrapper blurb]. Item #168878
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