Colley Cibber: An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian and Late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal. With an Historical View of the Stage During his own Time

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Colley Cibber : An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian and Late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal. With an Historical View of the Stage During his own Time

John Watts, London, c. 1740.

Contemporary full calf with double-lined gilt border, rebacked expertly, spine in six compartments of raised bands, red morocco label on two, all edges tinted red, endpapers marbled. , An excellent, clean copy with wide margins, 4to, P. frontis, title, blank, (9), blank, (4), 1-346,, Ex-libris on paste-down endpaper. With portrait plate, and elaborate initials, head and tail pieces.

Colley Cibber was a British actor-manager, playwright, and poet laureate. His colourful memoir, Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740), started a British tradition of personal, anecdotal, and even rambling autobiographies. He wrote some plays for performance by his own company at Drury Lane, and adapted many more from various sources, receiving frequent criticism for his "miserable mutilation" (Robert Lowe) of "hapless Shakespeare, and crucify'd Molière" (Alexander Pope).

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