Mrs Cibber (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 5th or later Edition. 8th edition, contemporary brown calf spine contrasting label over marbled boards rubbed and worn, old retailer's label to paste-down containing: The Funeral; Love for Love; The Careless Husband; The Tender Husband; The Busy Body with title page vignette and frontispiece to each of the 5 plays, separate pagination for each play.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4 volumes only, not the complete set. 32mo. Half-leather, 1 board detached, rubbing. Plays include: The Orphan of China, Every Man in his Humour, The Recruiting Officer, The Mayor of Garratt, A New Way to pay Old Debts, The Duke of Milan, The Orphan; or, the Unhappy Marriage, The Recruiting Sergeant, The Double Gallant, Which is the Man?, The Earl of Warwick, The Virgin Unmasked, The Way of the World, Edward the Black Prince; or, the Battle of Poictiers, Hit or Miss!, The Miser, Polly Honeycombe, The Earl of Essex, Lady Jane Grey, The Sultan; or, a Peep into the Seraglio, The Maid of the Oaks, Twenty Per Cent, The Merchant of Bruges, The Tender Husband, The Constant Couple, My Spouse and I, &c.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid original antique engraved portrait . Mounted - matted - and ready to frame. Mount size apprix 10 x 8 inches, 30 x 24 cms. Printed in 1777 and in excellent condition. Shows the actor as Monimia in the play the 'Orphan'.

Tree Calf. Condition: Good. Printed under the Authority of the Managers from the Prompt Book, Still well bound with wear to extremeties. Interior in nice clean condition. Most of the plays have a single sided engraving. No names or inscriptions. Each play paginated separately. No dates shown but believed to be about 1810. See my other listings for more identically bound volumes in this series. Reduced combined P&P available on request. Picture of this book available.

Five volumes bound as one. Frontispiece to each, that to the Cantlivre partly detached and worn on fore-margin. 8vo (6 3/8 x 4 inches), pages: 75:54:100:100:& 103. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt lettered direct "Plays". The front free endpaper inscribed "Ann Herbert June 3 1814". Headband split. Overall very good.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Annan & Swan (illustrator). A fine copperplate engraving, from 'Annals of The English Stage', 1888. Engraved size approx 5.5 x 4 ins, 14 x 10 cms. High quality, delicate engraving - scarce and most decorative and attractive. Mounted and ready to frame.

Condition: VG. DISBOUND TEXT (no covers) 153 x 96 mm. Not dated but about 1810. 100 pages.

Condition: VG. DISBOUND TEXT (no covers) 153 x 96 mm. Not dated but about 1810. 86 pages.

Condition: Very Good. Hardback. Single volume of 8 comedy plays collected from spearate volumes of The British Theatre. Bound together, each with frontis, in contemporary half-leather over marbled boards, rubbed and chipped but sound, a few pages slightly marked, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. c. 1778. Spine and colth boards damged, boards detached. Binding loose. Pages clear and bright. From the Private Library of Nicholas Toke. Plays include: THE MINOR; THE ORATORS; THE PATRON; JEPHTHA; THE KING AND The Miller of Mansfield, A DRAMATIC TALE; THE CHAPLET; THE CONTRIVANCES; CHRONONHOTONTHOLOGOS; DAMON AND PHILLIDA; THE TOY-SHOP; THE DEVIL TO PLAY; THE VIRGIN UNMASK'D; Sir John Cockle at Court; EDGAR AND EMMELINE; THE HONEST YORKSHIREMAN; THE STAGE-COACH; THE AUTHOR; THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY; THE ENGLISHMAN IN PARIS; THE KNIGHTS; ACIS AND GALATEA; MESSIAH; ARCADIA, THE SHEPHERD'S WEDDING; THE WHAT D'YE CALL IT; THE ORACLE; THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS; COMUS; Judas Macchabaeus; THE PRESS-GANG; THE MOCK DOCTOR; ALEXANDER'S FEAST; DEBORAH; THE LOTTERY; Joshua; THE LYING VALET; THE FARMER'S RETURN FROM LONDON; Daphnis and Amarillis; MISS in her TEENS; SOLOMON, AN ORATORIO; SAUL, AN ORATORIO; THE SCHOOL-BOY; The English returned from Paris; THEODORA; The Covent-Garden Tragedy; ZIMRI; ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.