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Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). The third edition of Thomas Moore's biography on the popular Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, illustrated with a folding plate. The third edition of this work. Complete in three volumes. Richard Sheridan was a satirist and poet, as well as being the owner of the famous London Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. Sheridan was also a Whig MP for thirty-two years, being an ally of Charles James Fox, who was allegedly a lover of Georgiana the Duchess of Devonshire. Sheridan wrote the plays 'The Rivals', 'The School for Scandal', and 'The Duenna'. Written by Thomas Moore. Moore was a fellow Irish poet who had met Sheridan on many occasions. He is best known for his poems 'The Minstrel Boy' and 'The Last Rose of Summer' as well as for being the literary executor for Lord Byron, thus burning Byron's memoirs after his death. Volume I with a frontispiece. Volume II with a folding plate. In a full cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. Light marks to the boards and spines. Bookseller's stamps to the front pastedowns, 'Denny, 147, Strand, London, W.C'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd scattered spot. Very Good Indeed. book.