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Bon-mots of Sydney Smith and R. Brinsley Sheridan / edited by Walter Jerrold ; with grotesques by Aubrey Beardsley.

Accession number
PML 142093
Creator
Smith, Sydney, 1771-1845.
Published
London : Published by J.M. Dent and Company at Aldine House in Great Eastern Street, E.C., 1893.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated throughout with 74 designs by Beardsley, with a frontispiece portrait of Smith and a portrait of Sheridan.
"Only one hundred copies of this large paper edition have been printed for England and America ..."--Half t.p. verso.
"Turnbull & Spears, printers, Edinburgh."--Colophon.
Library has copy no. 87 of 100 large paper copies.
Description
192 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 14 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of Francis Wilson; unidentified hand drawn bookplate with double "S" monogram; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's white cloth decorated in gold.
Classification
Department