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Memoirs of the life, public and private adventures of Madame Vestris of the theatres Royal Drury Lane, Covent Garden, Olympic and Haymarket : with interesting and amusing anecdotes of celebrated characters in the fashionable world, detailing an interesting variety of singularly curious and amusing scenes, as performed before and behind the curtain : to which is added, the amorous confessions of Madame Vestris, carefully selected by Charles Molloy W-M-E, esq., from a series of letters written by Madame to Handsome Jack : in which will be found most curious anecdotes of many eminent roues and debauchees of the day, with various others of public notoriety.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection PN2598.V5 M4 1839
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856.
- Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi.
- Actresses--Great Britain.
- Actresses.
- Great Britain.
- Penn Provenance:
- Kendrich, Samuel Murdoch (donor) (copy 1)
- Mathews, Elizabeth (autograph) (copy 1)
- Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (bookplate) (copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 61 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Life of Madame Vestris
- Madame Vestris
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for the booksellers, 1839.
- Local Notes:
- Furness has two variant editions. Copy 2 t.p. lacks phrase "to which is added ... Handsome Jack." Both have different frontispieces.
- OCLC:
- 1327680
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