AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF MR. COLLEY CIBBER, COMEDIAN, AND LATE PATENTEE OF THE THEEATRE-ROYAL. London, 1740. Second edition (published the same year as the first edition). Later brown half morocco. Colley Cibber (1671-1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright, and Poet Laureate. Cibber had great success as a comic actor, but persisted to act in tragedies, with less acclaim. He may be most famous as the chief target - the head Dunce - of Alexander Pope's satirical poem "The Dunciad."
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