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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 / written by himself.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Day Sterne Collection Sterne 212
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757, author, publisher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757.
- Cibber, Colley.
- Actors.
- Dramatists, English--Biography.
- Dramatists, English.
- England--London.
- Actors--England--London--Biography.
- Theater--England--London--History.
- Theater.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Parker, John Clement, fl. 1881 (ex libris) (RBC copy)
- Elias, Archibald C. (bookplate) (donor) (RBC copy 3)
- Day, Geoffrey (former owner) (Day Sterne Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 24 unnumbered pages, 488 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- The second edition.
- Fingerprint:
- nou, hetI ane, thah (3) 1740 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by John Watts for the author, and sold by W. Lewis ..., MDCCXL [1740]
- Notes:
- Signatures: A⁸ a⁴ B-2H⁸ 2I⁴.
- Title in red and black.
- Woodcut initials, factotums, head- and tail-pieces.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries RBC copy bound with: An apology for the life of Mr T......... C....., comedian / supposed to be written by Himself ... London : Printed for J. Mechell ..., 1740.
- Penn Libraries RBC copy 3 has bookplate of Archibald Elias on back pastedown.
- Penn Libraries RBC copy 3 has engraved portrait of "Colley Cibber Esqr." (excised from another source) pasted to verso of leaf preceding title leaf; numerous ms. marginal marks (most in pencil) in text.
- Kislak Center Day Sterne Collection copy acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2018.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T89986
- Arnott, J.F. Engl. theatrical lit., 2556
- OCLC:
- 62601748
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