SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816). The School for Scandal. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]. 4to (309 x 250mm). 25 mounted coloured plates by Hugh Thomson, illustrations, some full-page (some very light marginal browning to text leaves). Original elaborate pictorial vellum gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, remnants of silk ties (slightly bowed). With a printed notice from The Leicester Galleries loosely-inserted. NUMBER 126 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. With 4 other illustrated works in 5 vols., namely Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron (London, Henry F. Bumpus, 1906, 2 vols., plates by Louis Chalon, FINELY BOUND in dark straight-grained burgundy morocco gilt, spines faded, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden, mostly torn away in the second vol.), Sir John Davies's Orchestra or a Poeme of Dauncing ([London], The Stanton Press, 1922, 4to, woodcut illustrations by Elinor Lambert, original hessian-backed boards, NUMBER 31 OF 175 COPIES signed by Richard Stanton Lambert), Walter de la Mare's Down-Adown-Derry (London, 1922, small folio, coloured plates and illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden) and Thomas Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (London, James Tregaskis & Son, 1931, 4to, original full "Hermitage calf" by Bain and Company, ONE OF 500 COPIES). (6)
