Language: English
Published by Elkin Mathews & Marrot, United Kingdom, 1927
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
US$ 31.77
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Add to baskethardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, quarter purple cloth lettered gilt to a faded spine, marbled paper covered boards. Fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed and some remaining unopened and thus unread. A very good tightly bound copy, bookplate of a previous owner to the front pastedown else with a clean and unmarked text, four coloured plates by Mabel Peacock, 120pp.
Published by Printed for T. Davies et al., London, 1763
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 69.22
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Add to basketFirst edition. [4], 139pp, [1]. Disbound. Scattered spotting. A first edition of Frances Sheridan's (1724-1776) comedy 'The Discovery', which premiered at the Drury Lane theatre on the fifth of February, 1763, with Sheridan's husband Thomas in the lead role. It would later be subject to a controversial rewrite by Aldous Huxley in 1924. ESTC T943. Size: 8vo.