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[PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY GIBBINGS]

CIBBER, Colley
An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian and Late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal. Written By Himself.
Waltham St Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925.

2 volumes, octavo (10-3/8 x 7 in.) No. 154 of 450 numbered sets. Quarter cream buckram over gray paper boards, top edges roughly trimmed, others uncut. Collates (vol. I) 176 pp.: xii, 1-160, [4]; (vol. II) 178 pp.: [6], 1, [1], 1-163, [1], 1, [5]. Tops of back cover of vol. I and front cover of vol. II slightly darkened, very slight soiling to cover cloth, slight bumping to extremities of covers and spines, offsetting on pastedowns and endleaves, a very good set overall, strong, bright and fine internally. Printed on laid paper with Antique De Luxe watermark. Chapter headings and opening decorative initials printed in blue. A presentation copy inscribed by Robert Gibbings on front pastedown of vol. I.

Price: $125
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