Frontispiece engraved by Albanesi after Loutherbourg.
SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.—The School for Scandal. A Comedy. [Six lines of verse from Dryden] Dublin: Printed for J. Ewling, [1778?] 4to, red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, by Bradstreet's.
Presumably the first edition. The play was first performed May 8, 1777.
Collation: Title, A1 (verso blank). "Dramatis Personae," A2 (verso blank). Prologue by Garrick, A3. Text, A4-N2 recto in fours. Pages 1-93. Epilogue by "Coleman," N2 verso-N3 (verso Errata).
SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.—The School for Scandal, a comedy; as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Dublin: printed in the year M DCC LXXXI. 12mo, brown levant morocco, gilt and mosaic back, side corners and centre ornaments, gilt edges, by L. Broga.
Presumably the second edition.
A-I in fours, ending with Prologue by Garrick and Epilogue by Colman. Title on A1 (verso "Dramatis Personae").
SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.—The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed A Dramatic Piece in three Acts as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane By Richard Brinsley Sheridan Esqr. London. Printed for T. Becket, . . . MDCCLXXXI. 8vo, green levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by Rivière.
Engraved title-page, A1-A3 and B1-H1, in eights. Pages 1-98. There is another edition of 1781 with half-title and 96 pages. This edition is usually called the first, but there is a copy of the play dated 1780 in the British Museum.
SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley.—The Critic. 1781. 8vo, old red morocco, gilt back, side borders, centre ornaments, gilt edges.