The school for scandal
By: by Richard Brinsley Sheridan ; illustrated by Hugh Thomson
Contributors: Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920, illustrator, binding designer; Hodder and Stoughton; T. and A. Constable; Henry Stone & Son; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 1911
Place of publication: London; New York; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Drama; Social life and customs; English drama (Comedy)
Notes: "This edition de luxe is limited to three hundred and fifty copies signed by the artist and numbered ..."

With 25 mounted color illustrations (frontispiece plus 24 included in the pagination)

"Text printed by T. and A. Constable ... Edinburgh, illustrations by Henry Stone and Son, Ltd., Banbury"--Colophon

Rare Book copy: No. 342, signed by the illustrator.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Issued in full parchment binding with silk ties at fore-edge; sewn on four tapes; upper cover stamped in gold and red with central title, author, and illustrator surrounded by a wreath and a motif of swirling garlands and fans, above figures in period costumes, all within a border of fans; smooth spine, gilt with title and illustrator within fan and ribbon decorations; top edge gilt; designed by Hugh Thomson.