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AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF
MR. COLLEY CIBBER.
VOLUME THE FIRST.
NOTE.
510 copies printed on this fine deckle-edge demy 8vo paper for England and
America, with the portraits as India proofs after letters.
Each copy is numbered, and the type distributed.
No.
AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF
MR. COLLEY CIBBER
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
A NEW EDITION WITH NOTES AND SUPPLEMENT
BY
ROBERT W. LOWE
WITH TWENTY-SIX ORIGINAL MEZZOTINT PORTRAITS BY
R. B. PARKES, AND EIGHTEEN ETCHINGS
BY ADOLPHE LALAUZE
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOLUME THE FIRST
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PREFACE.
Colley Cibber's famous Autobiographyhas always been recognized as one of themost delightful books of its class; but, to studentsof the