The Harewood House-Beeleigh Abbey Copy. An Apology for the L...

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£150

The Harewood House-Beeleigh Abbey Copy. An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian, and Late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal. With an Historical View of the Stage during his Own Time. Written by Himself, first edition, London: Printed for John Watts for the Author, 1740, large broad-margined copy, portrait frontispiece engraved by Gerard Vandergucht after Jean Baptiste van Loo, some contemporary ink manuscript annotations, partly-rebacked and relaid contemporary calf gilt over later cloth boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to.

Provenance: 1) Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882-1947), his armorial bookplate as Viscount Lascelles and as the husband of Mary, Princess Royal, 1922-1929. 2) William Foyle (1885-1963), his armorial gilt-tooled morocco bookplate.