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An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2)

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NEWLY ETCHED FROM CONTEMPORARY DRAWINGS BY ADOLPHE LALAUZE. Volume the First.

I. Caius Gabriel Cibber's Figures of Raving And Melancholy Madness. From Bedlam Hospital.[1]

II. Scene Illustrating Crowne's "sir Courtly Nice." After the contemporary design by Arnold Vanhaecken.

III. Scene Illustrating Etheredge's "man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter." After the design by Lud. du Guernier.

IV. Scene illustrating Congreve's "Double Dealer." After F. Hayman.

V. Griffin and Johnson in the Characters of Tribulation and Ananias, Ben Jonson's "Alchemist," act iii. scene 2. Tribulation. "I do command thee (Spirit of Zeal, but Trouble) to peace, within him." After the original by Peter Van Bleeck, 1738.

VI. Scene illustrating Otway's "orphan." After the contemporary etching by G. Vander Gucht.

VII. Mrs. Porter, Mills, and Cibber. After a contemporary engraving by J. Basire.

VIII. Scene Illustrating Steele's "funeral, or Grief à la Mode." After the contemporary design by G. Vander Gucht.

IX. Mr. Estcourt as "Kite" in Farquhar's "Recruiting Officer." After the contemporary design by E. Knight and G. Vander Gucht.

HISTORIA HISTRIONICA:

AN Historical Account OF THE ENGLISH STAGE, SHEWING The ancient Use, Improvement, and Perfection, of Dramatick Representations, in this Nation. IN A Dialogue, of PLAYS and PLAYERS.

—— Olim meminisse juvabit.

LONDON. Printed by G. Croom, for William Haws at the Rose in Ludgate-Street. 1699.

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