Reminiscences (Oxford English memoirs and travels)

Near Fine, apparent first printing thus (as there are no other indications), cadmium yellow cloth over boards w gilt font on spine, 396 pps without writing or marks on interior pages. Cover corners very lightly rubbed, former owner's bookplate pasted down on inside cover. Dust jacket is not price clipped, tight and bright, showing minimal shelf wear and now under mylar wraps."Fascinating work on the first British Tenor to be acclaimed abroad" his memoirs were first published in the year in which he died, 1816. Full title:" Reminiscences of Michael Kelly of the King's Theatre and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, including a Period of Nearly Half a Century with Original Anecdotes of Many Distinguished Persons, Political, Literary, and Musical".