Sketches from Mr. Mathews' at home!
Subtitle: An excellent collection of recitations, anecdotes, songs, &c. &c. in the popular entertainments of Air, earth, and water!--Country cousins!-Mail coach adventures!--Trip to Paris!--Trip to America!--His youthful days; &c. &c. as delivered with unprecedented success, by Mr. Mathews, at the Theatre Royal, English operahouse, London, &c. &c. ...
Publisher: Printed and published by J. Limbird, Mirror-office, 143, Strand.
Published: 1825
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: The fronts. to pts. 1, 3 & 4 are by Robert Cruikshank.

Text prepared for Mathews by James Smith.

With this are bound Mr. Mathews' comic annual for 1830 [1830], and Mr. Mathews' Memorandum book. Second edition. Duncombe's edition. [ca.1830].

Bound with R.B. Peake, Mr. Mathews' Comic annual for 1830 (London, 1830.

Imperfect: general t.-p. & t.-p.'s to pts. 1 & 2 wanting.

Ms. annotations & markings throughout; various ms. tables ([8]p.) inserted at front & on verso of fronts. to pts. 1 & 2.

A collection of separately printed pieces presumably provided with a general t.-p. wanting in this copy; title from cover.

Original printed brown wrappers preserved; advts. on p.[4] of wrappers; bound in brown calf; blue morcco spine label.
Table of contents: title: Sketches from Mr. Mathews at home!; title: Memoirs of the youthful days of Mr. Mathews.; title: Sketches of Mr. Mathew's celebrated trip to Paris.; title: Sketches of Mr. Mathew's celebrated trip to America.