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An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, ed. B. R. S. Fone (1968), pp. 182-183. The plays which Cibber used for his sources were William Burnaby's The Reform'd Wife (1700), Burnaby's The Ladies Visiting Day (1701), and Susan Centlivre's Love at a Venture (1706).

A Collection of Letters, Never Before Printed: Written by Alexander Pope, Esq; and Other Ingenious Gentlemen, to the Late Aaron Hill, Esq. (1751), p. 80.

I have been unable to locate or verify the existence of an eighth, the [1729?] London edition first cited by Allardyce Nicoll in the "Hand-List of Plays" appended to A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama: 1700-1750 (1925), p. 310. Subsequent bibliographies, including Montague Summers' A Bibliography of the Restoration Drama [1935], pp. 37-38, and the CBEL, also list the edition, but these citations may very well have been derived from Nicoll's list. Nicoll's entry indicates that the edition was printed in octavo and was a "2nd" edition, although a "Fourth Edition" (actually the true third edition) had appeared in 1723. Perhaps the entry could be accounted for by a volume in the British Library [643. h. (1.)] in which the undated reissue of the first edition of the play—with "The Second Edition" appearing prominently on the title page—was bound together with a dated 1729 octavo edition of Cibber's Love in a Riddle. Although the British Museum Catalogue describes The Double Gallant part of the volume as an octavo, it is clearly a quarto.

"The Double Gallant of Colley Cibber," RES, 1 (1925), 343.

The sheets of the first edition were reissued with a title page printed almost entirely from the standing type used for the first edition title page. Down to and including the rule under the words 'Written by Mr. Cibber.', the setting of type is the same for both pages. Beneath the rule the words 'The Second Edition.', in gothic type, were inserted and a new rule was placed beneath them. The imprint of the reissue was also apparently printed from standing type but was shortened by the omission of the bookseller. A period was then substituted for the semicolon which in the first edition followed Lintot's address.

Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1814), VIII, 294.

The London Stage, 1700-1729, ed. Emmet Avery (1960), I, p. 156, for both dates.

Richard H. Barker, Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane (1939), p. 262.

Throughout my text catchwords and speech prefixes are enclosed within single quotes and printed exactly as they appear so that the often important distinctions between italicized and non-italicized words and abbreviations as well as discrepancies in punctuation can be observed.

The figures and their distribution are as follows:

• A a 5 on the outer forme (A3r)
• B a * on the inner forme (B1v, p. 2) and a 5 on the outer (B3r, p. 5)
• C a * on the inner forme (C3v, p. 14) and on the outer (C4v, p. 16)
• D a * on the inner forme (D2r, p. 19) and on the outer (D4v, p. 24)
• E a 2 on the inner forme (E4r, p. 31) and on the outer (E3r, p. 29)
• F a * on the inner forme (F3v, p. 38) and a 5 on the outer (F3r, p. 37)
• G a 2 on the outer forme (G3r, p. 45)

Including adjectival objective complements of verbs and verbals.

Apparently the speech prefixes were left entirely up to the compositors, at least in this case.

First edition copies, hereafter identified by letter, are from the following libraries: (A) Ohio State University, (B) University of Texas (fragmentary), (C) University of Wisconsin, (D) Yale University. The reissues are from the following: (E) British Library [643.h.12.(1.)], erroneously dated [1715?] in the British Museum Catalogue, (F) University of Illinois, (G) University of Texas.

The contraction "upon'r" has been corrected to "upon't" in all copies but F.

The transposition of "to" and "too" in the phrase "to high a rate, too disturb" (l. 6) and the misspelling of "need" as "neeed" (l. 37) have been corrected in all copies except E and F.

The line separations and the copies in which they appear are as follows: "ofour" for "of our" (p. 72, l. 17) in D; "bew orse" for "be worse" (p. 74, l. 27) in B, E, F, G; "Solomon' sde-|mands" for "Solomon's de-| mands" (p. 75, ll. 3-4) in A, C, D, E, F, G. The broken font, the ligature ct in "expect" (p. 75, l. 30), appears in A, C, F.

The style of Cibber's capitalization in the brief preface "To the Reader" resembles the style found throughout H-L and might suggest that the second house also printed gathering A, since preliminaries were often printed after the text. Brief passages with a similar style of capitalization occasionally appear in B-G, however, and the fact that gathering A has a press figure would seem to indicate that A and B-G were printed by the same house.