1789 · London
by Sheridan, Thomas
London: printed for Charles Dilly, 1789. 4to, pp. [14], [ix]-lv, [1], [6], plus unpaginated lexicon in triple column; engraved frontis portrait by Scott after Stewart; bound without the half-title in 19th century full reversed calf; short crack at the bottom of the front joint, spine ends evenly chipped; all else very good. Includes the ads on the verso of the last leaf, a preface, a lengthy prosodial grammar, and a 6-p. "Directions to Foreigners." The first edition is 1780; two octavo printings appeared in 1784 in Dublin, but they are abridged. This is the second edition of the full text, and the first with a portrait. Alston V, 315; Vancil, p. 220.
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