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Sheridan: a Biography
W Fraser Rae
1896
Richard Bentley and Son : London
8.5" by 5.5"
xxii, [4], 422; vii, 451pp.
SUMMARY
A signed presentation copy of W Fraser Rae's biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan in two uniform volumes in Eyre & Spottiswoode binding.
Author's Presentation Copy,Illustrated,Leather Binding,Rebound,Signed,Signed Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 1.5 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
The first edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. Inscribed by the author to half title vol. I 'To Ethel Fraser, on her marriage, with heartiest good wishes for her happiness from her Cousin, W Fraser Rae,' dated December 1902.
Illustrated with frontispiece and eight further plates to volume I; and frontispiece and twelve plates to vol. II. Collated, complete.
In Eyre & Spottiswoode signed half morocco bindings. With half titles.
Complete biography of Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan Irish satirist, politician, playwright, poet, known as long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Some of his most popular plays include 'The Rivals' and 'The School for Scandal.'
William Fraser Rae was a Scottish journalist and author.
CONDITION
In uniform half morocco bindings over cloth covered boards, five raised bands, gilt titles to spine, marbled edges and endpapers. Externally very smart with shelf wear, rubbed to back strip and extremities of boards. Ex libris stamp to front blank leaf. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to odd leaf, particularly tissue guard to frontispiece vol. I; pages otherwise generally bright and clean.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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