Vanbrugh Sir John Cibber (29 results)

play script, original wrappers, very good for age, engraving to title page.

Without front. plate, 3pp ads. Disbound. ESTC T46079.

Front. dated 1808. Disbound.

Fronts, title in red and black. Disbound. ESTC T29227.

Front. Disbound. Part of T42459 with separate titlepage, but signed as part of Vol. II of Plays written by Sir John Vanburgh.

Without the half title; outer leaves browned. Disbound. ESTC N39476.

Disbound. Condition: Fair. 111, [3] p. 17 cm. Engraved frontispiece. Disbound. Engraving detached with small chips and tears. Last leaf coming loose. A few small ink marks, occasional stain. A "comic" tale of an abused wife, outrageous and controversial in its day.

Condition: nrVG. DISBOUND TEXT (No covers). 170 x 102 mm. Frontispiece (slightly spotted). Book is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Front., title in red & black. Disbound. ESTC T46070.

Front., title in red & black. Disbound. ESTC N63499; no UK copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Full leather boards with five band spine. Considerable surface loss to spine with just red title segment and top segment still fairly intact. Head of spine also has loss . Extremities rubbed all over, at edges, corners etc. Pages are bound firm and relatively free of foxing. Browing to prelims and the bulk of pages are yellowed. Top and foredges rather grubby. OK reading copy of original volume.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. as it is acted at the Theatres-Royal by His Majesty's servants, later marbled boards, re-spined, frontispiece and decorations, red and black titlepage, feintly spotted, good. 97 pages including music.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Full leather binding in very good condition. PO bookplate. Publication dates for plays are: 1792, 1794, 1791. Rear 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, 1794, 1791. Rear board loosening. Binding secure. All plays adapted for theatrical representation as performed at Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent Garden. Book.

3pp. final ads; corner torn from pp(7-8) affecting ornament, a few leaves shaved affecting running head, dusted. Disbound. ESTC T121930. FIRST EDITION.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Softcover early 18th c./ late Restoration play begun by actor/manager Cibber, reworked by Vanbrugh (architect of Blenheim Palace) into his second and most successful play. Here is a 24mo copy from 1823 with notes, frp illustration and one for the stage and positions of the actors for this period, some lines inked out and very fine ink comments in margins of 19thc performance give this a decidedly mid 19th c flavor. The premise of the plot, that a wife trapped in an abusive marriage with a brutish husband might consider either leaving it or taking a lover, outraged some sections of society but has a very contemporary appeal today. Good only as strings loosening, some chipping, 82pps, ancient protective wrap provided. Rare.

Printed for John Watts. Front., title in red & black. WITH: The Provok'd husband; or, A journey to London. Printed for J. Watts; and sold by W. Feales. 12mo. Fronts. Disbound. ESTC T29227; T46069.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A collection of four restoration comedies printed circa 1806. Bound together in brown leather. Includes the comedies of the Recruiting Officer by Farquhar, Alzira by Arron Hill, The Careless Husband by Cibber and the Comedy of the Provok'd Wife by Vanbrugh. Pages are unmarked and free of writing. Text block is square. Rear board is detached though included. Some chipping of leather at board edges, leather missing from spine, entirely.

Disbound. 17.5 cm. 79pp. Chips to outer margin and upper corner of title page, not affecting text. First two pages with closed tears across the text, first 10 pp. worn at edges, affecting some lettering, stitching starting. Evans 27987.

leather. Condition: Good. frontispiece engravings (illustrator). Collection of five plays, being volume 19 in the Bell's British Theatre (and vol 10 of the comedies); the plays are (please note full title given for Volpone, the remainder containing equivalent sub-titling): Volpone or The Fox a Comedy as altered from Ben Jonson and performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden regulated from the Prompt-Book by permission of the Managers by Mr. Wild Prompter; The Country Lasses (Charles Johnson), The Mistake (Sir John Vanbrugh), The Gamesters (as altered from Shirley), and The Lady's Last Stake (Colley Cibber); each play with its own title page and facsimile engraving facing, frontispiece engraving for Bell's British Theatre (total of 6 engravings); all plays dated 1778, with frontispiece engraving dated 1780; period calf boards, with new leather spine with black and maroon title labels and gilt titling, new endpapers; scattered foxing throughout, offset from engravings, title pages and text block tanned, o.w. Good; boards rubbed/scuffed, worn at corners, new leather with very mild scuff marks. no dustwrapper. 397pp. 16mo. Good.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Early Printing. London: J. Watts, 1730. Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was both a popular dramatist and a famed architect (od Blenheim Palace). This play was unfinished at his death and was completed by the actor/manager Colley Cibber. This is a Near Fine copy of an early printing from three years after its completion and performance. Assumed to be the Third Edition, as there were printings in both 1728 and 1729. Scarce.Disbound; this is the text only, with remnants of a leather binding to be seen on the spine. Dedication to the Queen; "To the Reader" by Cibber (1727); Prologue; Cast List; then pages numbered 279-388. Bright and clear, a bit of toning at the margins. An important author in the hisrtory of the British thetre, awaiting a lovely rebind. Early Printing. Disbound. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. Originally conceived as an eight volume edition as indicated on the title page of the first volume but expanded to twelve volumes and bound as a set. The first six volumes were published in 1776. The seventh was published in 1777 so may be a second edition. Volume VIII was published in 1776. Volumes IX to XII were all published in 1777. Mostly in good condition although one volume has a loose front board. Contemporary full leather binding. The title and volume number panels have been lost on all the volumes apart from one of the title panels. The spines have chipping at the tops and bottoms with loss in a few instances. There is also some cracking to the edges but the binding is generally secure. The corners are bumped with some rubbing and fraying and there is some light surface wear to the front and rear panels. Name of a previous owner in ink to the blank pages following the front free endpapers - Lady Wale of Shelford near Cambridge - and there is the bookplate of another family member to the front pastedowns. There is also the name of another family member in ink with the date 1783. Browning and some spotting to the pages at the front and back. Volume II has a line drawing to the reverse of the rear free endpaper. The text block of Volume IV is uneven with some sections protruding at the edges but the binding seems secure. Volume V has a half inch piece missing from the surface of the spine at the bottom and one of the blank pages at the front has been removed. The text block of this volume is also uneven with some sections protruding at the edges but again the binding seems secure enough. Line drawing of W. Pitt to the reverse of the rear free endpaper. Volume VI has a little more spotting to the pages at the front. Volume VII has a detached front board. Volume IX has a detached front board and the page immediately after the front free endpaper is loose. Volume IX has two sections protruding slightly - they are slightly loose but not coming away - and there is a crack to the spine. There is light browning to the pages with some spots and marks in places and in particular to the pages at the front of the books but the pages are otherwise generally unmarked. Heavy item due to it being twelve volumes so there will be an additional postage charge for overseas orders.

A collection of 9 Plays and 6 Essays bound in 2 Volumes. 12mo. (approx. 16.5 x 10cm) hardbacks bound in 18th century style quarter tan calf with raised bands, dark brown morocco title labels, gilt to spines and marbled boards. All except the Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray have titles pages and most of the plays have engraved frontispieces excepting Sir Courtly Nice, The Beaux Stratagem and The Drummer. Small modern bookplates to each front pastedown and elegantly hand-written list of contents to early blanks. Occasional light foxing. A VERY GOOD SET. (Shelf 4) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1728 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 117 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 117.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1822 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 135 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 135.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1883 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 325 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 325 Language: English.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1728. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: : - 130, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 130.