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THE ADVENTURE OF LADY URSULA; A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS

By: HOPE, SIR ANTHONY (Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins); [BRADLEY, WILL (binding design; head and tail pieces)]

Price: $325.00

Publisher: New York, R. H. Russell: 1898

Seller ID: 3337

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Condition: Fine

New York: R. H. Russell, 1898. First Edition. 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"). pp.125. Large paper format. Aesthetic Movement binding of silver chrysanthemums (Dendranthema grandiflora) inside a double ruled border on grey cloth. Design repeated on rear board.

Includes Bradley's colonial-style woodcut head and tail pieces as well as Floriated initial letters. Book design and layout are also thought to be by Bradley. t.e.g.

Five black and white photogravure illustrations of Virginia Harned and Edward H. Southern in their leading roles in this play by Sir Anthony Hope. t.e.g. unope...
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THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL AND THE RIVALS

By: [SULIVAN, EDMUND J. (binding design and illustrations)]; SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY

Price: $225.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., LTD: 1896

Seller ID: 1396

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Condition: Very Good +

London: Macmillan and Co., LTD., 1896. First Thus. C8vo (5” x 7 3/8”). pp. 365 + 6pp.advts.

Binding design by Edmund J. Sullivan in gold on dark green cloth of titles, and a repeated floral pattern surrounded by a rococo frame-work. Spine with gilt-stamped sword and fan surrounded by ribbon bearing titles. Dark green end papers. a.e.g.

Includes frontispiece and 49 full-page illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan.

"The School for Scandal" is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy that pokes fun at London upper class society in the late 1700s and is one S...
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PEG WOFFINGTON

By: [THOMSON, HUGH (binding design and illustrations)]; READE, CHARLES; DOBSON, AUSTIN (introduction).

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, George Allen: 1899

Seller ID: 3306

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Condition: Very Good +

London: George Allen, 1899. First Thus. First Thus. C8vo (7 1/4“ x 5 1/4”). pp. li; [298]. Introduction by Austin Dobson. Hugh Thomson binding design of the titles surrounded by cherubs, butterflies and surmounted by a small portrait of Peg Woffington in gold on green cloth.

Frontis. and over 70 b/w line block illustrations by Hugh Thomson, including headpieces, tailpieces, historiated initials and textual vignettes. a.e.g.

This novel is based on Charles Reade’s 1852 play "Masks and Faces", which has Margaret “Peg” Woffington as the central character. Mrs. Wof...
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By: [THOMSON, HUGH (binding design and illustrator)]; BARRIE, JAMES

Price: $500.00

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1913

Seller ID: 3001

Binding: cloth

Condition: fine

Quarto (10¾” x 8 ”). pp. vii, [1], 197, [1]. IN THE ORIGINAL BOX.

Unsigned Hugh Thomson binding design in gold on purple cloth. The original box has a title and borders in olive with a color paper onlay of the illustration found opposite page 3.

Includes pictorial title page, color frontispiece and 21 additional tipped-in color plates each with captioned tissue-guard. Black and white vignette and full page illustrations scattered throughout.

Barrie's comedy about two sisters who start a school "for genteel children", is also a satire on nineteenth century romance. View More...

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By: [THOMSON, HUGH (binding design and illustrator)]; BARRIE, JAMES

Price: $425.00

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton:

Seller ID: 3002

Condition: Near fine

Quarto (10¾” x 8 ”). pp. vii, [1], 197, [1]. LIMITED VELLUM EDITION SIGNED BY HUGH THOMSON. Number 420 of 1000 copies.

Unsigned Hugh Thomson binding design in gold on full vellum. Original yellow watered silk grosgrain ribbon ties are intact; t.e.g.

Includes pictorial title page, color frontispiece and 21 additional tipped-in color plates each with captioned tissue-guard. Black and white vignette and full page illustrations scattered throughout.

Barrie's comedy about two sisters who start a school "for genteel children", is also a satire on nineteenth century romanc...
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THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON

By: [THOMSON, HUGH (binding design and illustrator)]; BARRIE, JAMES

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1914

Seller ID: 3003

Binding: cloth

Condition: fine

Quarto (10¾” x 8 ”). pp. iii-vi, [2], 234, [2]. IN THE ORIGINAL BOX.

Unsigned Hugh Thomson binding design in gold on bright red cloth with the central titles, pineapples and swags in a cartouche formed by an elaborate palm wreath, which in turn is bordered by a tall palm and the final border composed of a palm swag on either side; the cast of characters is depicted at the foot of the design around a pot on a fire; Spine with titles and pineapple motifs in gold. t.e.g.

The original box has a title and borders in brown with a color paper onlay of the illustration found opposi...
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Category: [THEATER - COMEDY]

THE ADVENTURE OF LADY URSULA; A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS

THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL AND THE RIVALS

PEG WOFFINGTON

QUALITY STREET

QUALITY STREET

THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON