DeCastro, Jacob | Actors, reminiscences, theater, Astley

DeCastro, Jacob

The Memoirs of J. Decastro, Comedian … Accompanied by … the Life of the Late Philip Astley … London: Sherwood, Jones, & Co., 1824

12mo (187 x 111 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, folding facsimile of handwritten "birth certificate," folding plate f handbill advertising Astley's equestrian act at the Rue and Faubourg du Temple; frontispiece foxed, handbill is dissected at folds and lacking one portion, edges browned throughout. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, spine gilt, top edge gilt; bookplate removed from front pastedown, extremities rubbed.

First edition, another copy.