An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian and late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal Written by Himself.
[Waltham Saint Lawrence, Twyford, Berkshire]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925.
Price: $125.00
About the item
Gill, Eric. Number 113 of 450 copies. With initial letters by Eric Gill printed in blue. 2 vols. 4to. Buckram and boards. Spine slightly sunned, else fine. Chanticleer 29.
Item #236514
The dramatist's ingenuously frank autobiography and description of the Restoration and early 18th theatre. Cibber (1671-1757) was an actor, and the author of the comedies The Careless Husband, and Love's Last Shift; he was also generally considered one of the worst poets to hold the office of Poet Laureate (which he did for the last 27 years of his life)--it was, he cheerfully admitted, strictly a political appointment for being a good Whig.
