The School for Scandal by R. B. Sheridan – LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 1934
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1wcarter
The School for Scandal by R. B. Sheridan – LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 1934
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 1150 of 1500
Introduced by Carl van Doren.
16 hand coloured etchings by Rene Ben Sussan who signed the book.
Designed by Francis Meynell and printed under his supervision at the Oxford University Press in Oxford, England.
Hand printed copper engravings coloured by hand in Paris.
Type is Dr. Fell's old face, hand set and printed on hand made Auvergne paper in Oxford.
Bound in plain white card.
All page edges ragged.
Plain white endpapers.
In a dust-jacket, chemise and slipcase, all in cream paper printed with an identical brown pattern.
Title label on chemise edge.
No title on slipcase edge.
Title printed in black as a cartouche on front book cover but not on spine.
30x18.8cm.
vii + 143 pages.
US$30
A comedy of manners, a play satirizing the behaviour and customs of upper classes through witty dialogue and an intricate plot with comic situations that expose characters' shortcomings. The author mainly satirizes malicious gossip and hypocrisy in the fashionable society of London in the 1770s.
The chemise and slipcase of my edition are rather battered while the book itself is in fine condition. For a short book, the paper is too thin as there is a lot of show-through.
A review of the 2011 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Edition of “The School for Scandal” can be seen here.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 1150 of 1500
Introduced by Carl van Doren.
16 hand coloured etchings by Rene Ben Sussan who signed the book.
Designed by Francis Meynell and printed under his supervision at the Oxford University Press in Oxford, England.
Hand printed copper engravings coloured by hand in Paris.
Type is Dr. Fell's old face, hand set and printed on hand made Auvergne paper in Oxford.
Bound in plain white card.
All page edges ragged.
Plain white endpapers.
In a dust-jacket, chemise and slipcase, all in cream paper printed with an identical brown pattern.
Title label on chemise edge.
No title on slipcase edge.
Title printed in black as a cartouche on front book cover but not on spine.
30x18.8cm.
vii + 143 pages.
US$30
A comedy of manners, a play satirizing the behaviour and customs of upper classes through witty dialogue and an intricate plot with comic situations that expose characters' shortcomings. The author mainly satirizes malicious gossip and hypocrisy in the fashionable society of London in the 1770s.
The chemise and slipcase of my edition are rather battered while the book itself is in fine condition. For a short book, the paper is too thin as there is a lot of show-through.
A review of the 2011 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Edition of “The School for Scandal” can be seen here.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
2kdweber
Slipcase and chemise have seen better days but the book itself seems to be in a nice condition. Typical bleed on the images.
Which edition of Scandal do you prefer? I only have the LEC.
Which edition of Scandal do you prefer? I only have the LEC.
5mr.philistine
>1 wcarter: Thank you for the wonderful photos.
In case others like myself are wondering about the 'bleed' in the aforementioned comments, I found three posts from the late GMD leccol accurately describing 'offsetting of illustrations on to text [facing] pages' here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/190672#5146578
https://www.librarything.com/topic/192376#5223851
https://www.librarything.com/topic/177357#4758673
ETA: 2nd & 3rd posts
In case others like myself are wondering about the 'bleed' in the aforementioned comments, I found three posts from the late GMD leccol accurately describing 'offsetting of illustrations on to text [facing] pages' here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/190672#5146578
https://www.librarything.com/topic/192376#5223851
https://www.librarything.com/topic/177357#4758673
ETA: 2nd & 3rd posts
6Sport1963
>5 mr.philistine: Do we know for sure that tissue guards were not originally included? When I get back home, I'll pull my edition off the shelf and check on the off-setting.
7mr.philistine
>6 Sport1963: This post from leccol explains slipsheeting: https://www.librarything.com/topic/177357#4758849
Listings of the 1933 Don Quixote show tissue guards but those of School for Scandal or the 1933 Lyrics of Francois Villon are lacking and hence the visible offsetting. If the latter were originally slipsheeted, a few examples should have survived. Only a nonagenarian who received their copy directly from the LEC can confirm this!
Listings of the 1933 Don Quixote show tissue guards but those of School for Scandal or the 1933 Lyrics of Francois Villon are lacking and hence the visible offsetting. If the latter were originally slipsheeted, a few examples should have survived. Only a nonagenarian who received their copy directly from the LEC can confirm this!
8PBB
>7 mr.philistine: Only a nonagenarian who was also a book collector before age 8. Wish I had started that early! Wonder what my collection would look like if I had put my allowance to books and not Legos and Pokemon and a whole bunch of other stuff that hasn't survived...
I doubt Villon had tissue guards. I keep an eye out for deals on that one as it is a great book and I'd like to have a second copy to actually handle. I have George Macy's personal copy and would prefer not to make that one my reading copy.
Here's a copy described as fine in glassine, no mention of tissue guards or offsetting:
https://www.buddenbrooks.com/pages/books/34197/francois-villon/the-lyrics-of-fra...
I doubt Villon had tissue guards. I keep an eye out for deals on that one as it is a great book and I'd like to have a second copy to actually handle. I have George Macy's personal copy and would prefer not to make that one my reading copy.
Here's a copy described as fine in glassine, no mention of tissue guards or offsetting:
https://www.buddenbrooks.com/pages/books/34197/francois-villon/the-lyrics-of-fra...
9mr.philistine
>8 PBB: Hopes for a centenarian or supercentenarian LEC collector belong in the world of Lego and Pokemon! :)
Several copies of the 1933 Villon listed on AbeBooks from $21 onwards.
Several copies of the 1933 Villon listed on AbeBooks from $21 onwards.
10PBB
>9 mr.philistine: I know of a few booksellers who were active into their 90s, so doesn't seem impossible for someone to be collecting at 100+. Requires less effort than selling.
Crazy how many copies of the 1979 edition of Villon are available. 54 matches on Vialibri. I think that is the LEC I have seen the most in bookshops, often with no slipcase. I have bought a couple extra copies to give to friends who speak French but it is definitely not the book to give away to inspire interest in the LEC.
Crazy how many copies of the 1979 edition of Villon are available. 54 matches on Vialibri. I think that is the LEC I have seen the most in bookshops, often with no slipcase. I have bought a couple extra copies to give to friends who speak French but it is definitely not the book to give away to inspire interest in the LEC.
11Django6924
My copy of School for Scandal likewise had offsetting of the illustrations, and considering the book's condition, I doubt it had tissue guards when issued.
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