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. II [...]

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Full 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. II. 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. 
Second of 2 volumes in 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [2], 303, [28], f. [1] (blank). Calf. Loose boards and worn gilded spine, red panels, marbled endpapers. Includes head- and tailpieces. Signatures in pencil "R.K. Hoke, Baltimore, 1937." Some pencil marginalia. 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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