THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.
Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Pp. [iv]+198(last blank), hand-tipped coloured frontispiece and 24 plates, all within a dull gilt decorative border, black & white pictorial title page and text illustrations (a few full page); roy. 4to; full vellum, lettered and elaborately decorated in purple & gilt, with ribbon ties, the boards slightly sprung and lightly soiled; t.e.g., others uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, above the earlier bookplate of Julian Phillips (perhaps designed by William Strang?), and a bookseller's sticker on the upper pastedown, hinges cracking, the text block slightly browned, a little light foxing (mainly of outer leaves) and occasional faint soiling; Hodder & Stoughton, n.d.[1911]. Edition de Luxe, limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Spielmann & Jerrold 53. *Loosely inserted is a printed notice (foxed and lightly worn) advising that Hugh Thomson's original watercolour illustrations for The School for Scandal could be obtained from The Leicester Galleries, London. Item #182225
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