Title: An apology For the life of Colley Cibber, comedian, and late patentee of the Theatre-Royal. With an Historical View of the Stage during his Own Time. Written by Himself. The Fourth Edition. Vol. I [...]
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> An apology For the life of Colley Cibber, comedian, and late patentee of the Theatre-Royal. With an Historical View 
of the Stage during his Own Time. Written by Himself. The Fourth Edition. Vol. I. With an Account of the Rise and Progress of the English Stage: A Dialogue on Old Plays and Old Players: and A List of Dramatic Authors and their Works.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of 2 volumes in 8vo. f. [1] (blank), [1] (plates), pp. [14], 324, f. [1] (blank). Calf. Loose boards and worn gilded spine, red panels, marbled endpapers. Includes head- and tailpieces. Includes full-page frontispiece portrait of Colley Cibber, signed "Vanloo pinx: J.S. Miller Sc:." Signatures in pencil "R.K. Hoke, Baltimore, 1937." </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The ‘list of dramatic authors and their works,’ by bookseller/publisher and play-prompter turned theatrical manager and novelist William Rufus Chetwood (ca. 1688-1766), was also published separately in the same year under the title ‘Theatrical Records.’ It includes many forgeries. See also ESTC, T73426.
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