Memoirs of the life, public and private adventures of Madame Vestris
Subtitle: of the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, Olympic and Haymarket, with interesting and amusing anecdotes of celebrated characters in the fashionable world, detailing and 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
By: 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.
Contributors: Vestris, Madame 1797-1856.
Publisher: The Booksellers
Published: 1839
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Vestris, -- Madame -- 1797-1856.; Actors, English -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc.
Other titles: Memoirs concerning Madame Vestris
Notes: Vol. 2 has half title only: Memoirs concerning Madame Vestris, collected from various sources.

Without "The amorous confessions of Madame Vestris" mentioned on t.p.

Memoir of Madame Vestris from Oxberry's Dramatic biography [and extracts from other sources, incl. Vandenhoff's Dramatic reminiscences, published in 1860]": 14 p. at end of v. 2.

The portraits of Muzio Clementi, Alfred d'Orsay, Eliza Mathews (i.e. Madame Vestris), J.P. Kemble, Leigh Hunt, and Princess Charlotte each signed by the subject.

RBSC copy: Extra illustrated, with 83 plates (4 col.) and portraits including some of Madame Vestris in a few of her stage characterizations.  Between p. 60-61 is inserted a holograph receipt issued by C.J. Matthews dated 1845.  With the bookplate of John E. Russell.  Bound by Tout. In box.