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~Contents: Vol. I: Love's Last Shift, Woman's Wit, Love Makes a Man, She Would and She Would Not / Vol. II: The Careless Husband, The Rival Fools, The Lady's Last Stake, Richard III / Vol. III: The Double Gallant, Ximena, The Comical Lovers, The Non-Juror / Vol. IV: The Refusal, The Provoked Husband, Love in a Riddle, Perolla and Izadora, Rival Queans / Vol. V: Caesar in Egypt, Flora, School Boy, Venus and Adonis, Papal Tyranny, Damon and Phillida. ~Fairly recently rebound in red cloth, gilt date of publication to spine. Original tan calf gilt spine titles trimmed and laid down as labels to spines. All edges speckled blue. 12mos (11.5 x 18.4cm). Hinges sound. Replacement laid paper endpapers. A little scattered foxing. Portrait frontis to vol. I. Text block mildly cracked at gutter between pp. 4 & 5. Mild dampstaining to vol. III, affecting fore-edges and most noticeable on first c. 70pp., with faint damp-rippling to later pages. Blindstamp of Royal Institute of Great Britain to t.p. of vol. IV. Loose typescript slip to vol. I with information on Cibber. This is the first edition of Cibber's dramatic works published as a complete set - the single earlier edition was published as a four-volume set in 1760, with a further volume published separately in 1761. Colley Cibber (1671-1757), actor, writer, theatre manager, and poet laureate; 'the true originator of the sentimental comedy in English', and still acclaimed as 'a major comic actor and an innovative theatre manager' (ODNB). ESTC: T98912 ~Robust packaging. Overseas orders trackable on request. Size: 378, (6) + 372 + 356, (2) + 381, (2) + 340pp. Seller Inventory # JJ6875
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Title: The Dramatic Works of Colley Cibber, Esq. In...
Publisher: J. Rivington and Sons, et al, London
Publication Date: 1777
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Very Good+
Edition: 1st edn thus.
Book Type: Binding sound, text unmarked
