8vo. In two volumes. [4], li, [1], 292pp; [4], 316pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of the author to Vol.I. Contemporary gilt-tooled half calf, tan cloth boards, with contrasting burgundy and brown morocco lettering-pieces. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed, with light scoring to boards. Faded inked ownership inscription to head of second blank fly-leaf, Vol.I. Light browning and spotting to initial leaves of both Vols.

A handsomely bound edition of the collected plays of politician and playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816). The compilation begins with his famously-revised comedy The Rivals, which opened to universal disdain; in a staunch display of the author's diligence, the drama reopened to significant acclaim just ten days later, with a remarkably transformed script, and has remained a standard of English theatre ever since.