THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. A COMEDY. With an Introduction by Carl Van Doren

First Edition, Limited and with illustrations by René Ben Sussan. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST AND NUMBERED 299 of fifteen hundred. With hand-coloured Etchings by René Ben Sussan. 4to, publisher's original sepia and off white patterned paper over boards, the upper cover with a lettering label, in the original slipcase. vii,143,colophon, pp. A very fine copy, as pristine. The slipcase in fine condition, part of the lettering label to the chemise is not present. FIRST EDITION WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS BY SUSSAN, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST AND LIMITED AND NUMBERED. This comedy of manners was first performed in London at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1977. Edmund Gosse called the play "perhaps the best existing English comedy of intrigue.".