Sales catalogue 503: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/61
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 503: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CIBBER (COLLEY )—continued. 362 ———— Love ina Rippre. A Pastoral. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesty’s Servants. First Eprrion. 8vo. Half morocco. London, Printed for J. Watts, 1719. ET 55 An imitation of ‘‘The Beggar’s Opera.’’ : ce in 1729, not 1719 as on the title. With 22 pp. of Music to the Songs at end. 363 ———— A Poem on THe Deatu oF our LATE SOVEREIGN Lapy Queen Mary. | First Eprrion. An uncut copy. Small 4to. New boards. London, 1695. £4 4s 364 ———— Tue Tueatre Royat TurN’D Intro a MouNTEBANK’S STAGE. In some remarks upon Mr. Cibber’s Quack-Dramatical Performance, called the Non-Juror. ; 38 pp., 8vo. Unbound. London, Printed for John Morphew, 1718. £1 Ios ‘‘ Shakespeare a greater Poet, tho’ not so good a Player as Cibber, according to Play House Tradition, is said to have done nothing so well as The Ghost of Hamlet’s Father. Let the Town then consider what they owe to the merit of him who has wrote so usefully in this Drama, and acted so skilfully in all other Comedies, that is to say, has performed so well as a Writer, and so eminently as a Player, that in the latter he excell’d such a Genius as Shakespeare, tho’ the Art was also his Profession.’’ “‘Tn t’other World expect dry Blows, No Tears can wash thy stains out, Moliere will pull thee by the Nose, And Shakespear dash thy Brains out.”’ Cibber’s ‘‘ Non-Juror’’ was written in favour of the Hanoverian succession, and was vehemently attacked by the Jacobites and Nonjurors. A few leaves cut short at foot. 365 CIBBER (Theophilus). An Apotocy For THE Lirz or Mr. THE. CrppEr, CoMEDIAN. Being a Proper Sequel to the Apology for the life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian. With an Historical View of the Stage to the present Year. Supposed to be written by Himself. Small 8vo. Original calf. Dublin, Re-printed by and for George Faulkner, 1741. ¥ 1° 16s In 1739 Cibber entertained the notion of publishing by subscription his auto-