Manuscript copy of Sheridan’s ‘School for Scandal’ takes £3100 at Gloucestershire auction
Bid to £3100, some ten times the high estimate, a contemporary manuscript copy of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s ‘The School for Scandal’ sold at a recent Dominic Winter sale.
That now famous play was premiered at the Drury Lane Theatre on May 8, 1777 and the extraordinary su…