Chapter I: Front Matter

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AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF

MR. COLLEY CIBBER.

_VOLUME THE SECOND._

_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._ 368

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 SECOND

LONDON
JOHN C. NIMMO
14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND
MDCCCLXXXIX

Chiswick Press

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TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON, E.C.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER X.

PAGE
THE RECRUITED ACTORS IN THE HAY-MARKET ENCOURAG'D BY A
SUBSCRIPTION, ETC. 1

CHAPTER XI.

SOME CHIMÆRICAL THOUGHTS OF MAKING THE STAGE USEFUL, ETC. 24

CHAPTER XII.

A SHORT VIEW OF THE OPERA WHEN FIRST DIVIDED FROM THE
COMEDY, ETC. 50

CHAPTER XIII.

THE PATENTEE, HAVING NOW NO ACTORS, REBUILDS THE NEW THEATRE
IN LINCOLNS-INN-FIELDS, ETC. 97

CHAPTER XIV.

THE STAGE IN ITS HIGHEST PROSPERITY, ETC. 117

CHAPTER XV.

SIR RICHARD STEELE SUCCEEDS COLLIER IN THE THEATRE-ROYAL,
ETC. 161