Cibber c olley (3 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. as performed at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane and Covent Garden, printed under the authority of the managers from the prompt book, with remarks by Mrs Inchbald, modern paper wrappers, ex Hammersmith Public Libraries with their blind stamps, frontispiece, feintly spotted, very good. 100 pages; keywords: drama.…

100pp. Uncut. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's powder blue wrappers, title in manuscript to spine. Extremities rubbed, marked, and creased, loss to head and foot of spine. Internally clean and crisp. A continental edition, preserved in original state, of playwright, actor, and theatre manager Colley Cibber's (1671-1757) immensely successful comedy, first performed in 1704, described by Thomas Wilkes in A General View of the Stage (1759) as 'not only the best comedy in English but in any other language'. This edition was also issued as a part of A collection of the best English plays, (1710-21), published by T. Johnson in The Hague. ESTC T14878. Size: 8vo.…

4to. pp. 4 p.l., 5-76. modern paneled calf (some browning throughout). First Edition(?). There was also an edition dated 1701 with imprint of Richard Parker and E.Rumball (pp. viii, 56). NCBEL II 777.