Mr Colley Cibber (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Full leather binding in very good condition. PO bookplate. Publication dates for plays are: 1792, 1793, 1792, 1792. Front board loosening. Binding secure. All plays adapted for theatrical representation as performed at Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent Garden. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Full leather binding in very good condition. PO bookplate. Publication dates for plays are: 1792, 1793, 1792, 1792. Front board loosening. Binding secure. All plays adapted for theatrical representation as performed at Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent Garden. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 3 1/4 X 5 1/2". Nicely rebound in buckram. A little occasional foxing. A nice book. Numerous steel engravings. Visit Barbers Book Store in down town Fort Worth where we have sold fine books since 1925.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Five "Comedies" published in London between 1776 and 1777. Full polished calf with red leather spine label. Spine is a little faded and chipped on ends. Appears to be lacking a second spine label. Some moisture tide marks in contents and scattered mostly light foxing. Other general light wear, though overall a solid and fairly clean copy.…

Full Brown Calf. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scarce first Dublin edition, bound in contemporary full leather a small amount of scuffing but polished over & looking handsome spine with raised bands title label missing, no half title rear ep has 2" cut from the top otherwise a very good copy, A fine bookplate on the fpd of the MacDremot Prince of Connaught reprinted by George Faulkner Dublin 1840, 346 pp. x 2 adverts 12mo. An interesting look at the theater in the 17thc. Mr Colley Cibber 1671 - 1757.…

A Hard Back. 1st Edition in This Form. total of 315 pages, 1st 112 pages + engraving before title - date 1791, 2nd 94 pages + engraving before title - date 1791, 3rd 104 pages - date 1792, all 3 state " as performed at Theatre- Royal, Dury Lane" etc. Binding Fair, Quarter Leather with some rubbing, small splits top of spine. Contents Fair, Good reading copy, mostly Good Cean & tight, just the odd minor mark/dirt or folded corner tip. ,2 small unreadable very early owner signitures to inside front binding. 3 seperate books / titles bound together into one book around 1792. …

Condition: Good. DISBOUND TEXT (No covers). Frontispiece. 32 pages. Fore edge closely trimmed. Minor lext loss here to last twewo leaves. Some staining (worse at end). Just a good reading copy.

(10), 64 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Early printing. Early printing. (10), 64 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. CBEL II: 430. CBEL II: 430 Modern brown cloth. Last leaf with tape repairs, else Very Good.

1st edn. 6 vols in 1. 8vo. Later half calf on marbled paper-laid boards, gilt ruled raised-ribbed spine with contrasting label, red sprinkled edges (small abrasions on boards and lightly rubbed at edges). Pp. [iv] + iv + 62 [&] [iv] + 83 + [5] [&] [iv] + 26 + [2] [&] [viii] + 68 + [4] + vii + 64 [&] [xii] + 70 + [10] + [2] blank, illus with woodcut head and tailpieces (title page of Gorboduc loosened and title page of Regulus with loss at bottom half and partial loss at following page; previous owners' armorial bookplate on front paste-down and neat inscription in contemporary hand at top edge of title page of Regulus). The Tragedy of Gorboduc (Robert Dodsley 1736), The Brothers a Tragedy Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane (Robert Dodsley 1753), The History of the Life and Reign of the Valiant Prince Edward (T. Cooper 1739), Achilles an Opera as it is Perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden (J. Watts 1733), Regulus a Tragedy as it is Acted by His Majesty's Servants at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane by Mr. Havard (H. Woodfall 1744), Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John a Tragedy (J. Watts 1745). …

Hardcover. Condition: good. First edition. Quarto. 346pp. 1/2 brown leather over marble paper. Black leather title label to spine. Frontispiece portrait of Cibber engraved from a painting by Jean-Baptiste Vanloo Title page has some chipping and a closed two inch tear. There is foxing and soiling to tile page and scattered foxing. There are small holes that appear on the blank borders of a approximately 50 pages Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper.…

[Price One Shilling. Very Good- pp56. unbound.

72 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition. First edition. 72 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. CBEL II: 430 Modern brown cloth. Title page backed, with minor loss to inner margin, last leaf with marginal chipping, else Very Good.