Author: Cibber, Colley [1671 - 1757]. Bellchambers, Edmund - Editor & Contributor. Cavendish-Bentinck, William John Arthur Charles James, 6th Duke of Portland [1857 - 1943] - Fprmer Owner
Title: An APOLOGY For The LIFE Of MR. COLLEY CIBBER, Comedian and Patentee of the Theatre Royal. Written by Himself; and Interspersed with Characters and Antedotes of his Theatrical Cotemporaries;; The Whole Forming a Complete History of the Stage for the Space of Forty Years. With Many Critical and Explanatory Notices; by Edmund Bellchambers
Description: London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822. 1st edition thus, being a New Edition. Later 19th C. brown buckram cloth binding with black leather title label to spine. TEG. xxiii, [1 (blank)], 514, vii, [1] pp. 7 page index at rear. Frontispiece. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-1/2". Average wear. Bookplate of William Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland. Bit of foxing to preliminary & terminal leaves. Very Good. Cibber a renown English actor and dramatist, with this autobiographical work highly regarding primarily for its accuracy in recounting the theatrical life in the first half of the 18th C.

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