No inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased. 346pp.

The memoirs of J.H. Mapleson, known as Colonel who directed the destinies of Her Majesty's and Drury Lane theatres in the second half of the nineteenth century and who was a 'character' in the Victorian operatic world.