1789 · London
by Sheridan, Thomas
London: printed for Charles Dilly, 1789. 4to, pp. [16], [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 half calf over brown moire-patterned cloth; last leaf with a small piece missing from the fore-margin (not affecting any letterpress), some cracking along the joints, covers a bit bowed; all else very good. Includes the advertisement 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 true second edition, (truncated)