[Circus] The memoirs of J. Decastro, comedian. In the course of them will be given anecdotes of . . . Dr. Johnson, Garrick, Foote, Wilson, Charles Bannister, J. Palmer, C. Dibdin, Sen., the late Earl of Barrymore, R. B. Sheridan, Esq., G. F. Cooke, J. P. Kemble, Esq., &c., never before in print : accompanied by an analysis of the life of the late Philip Astley, Esq. . . . :
London: Sherwood, Jones, & co, 1824. Quarter-Cloth. First Edition of this cornerstone of any circus collection (Toole-Stott lists it among his hundred best circus books). Edited by R. Humphreys. Crown 8vo (187 x 107mm): [xx],279,[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece and two folding plates, including the certificate of birth, "often wanting." (Lowe)..... more