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REMINISCENCES

REMINISCENCES - 1975

by Kelly, Michael

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London: Oxford University Press, 1975. Edited with an Introduction by Roger Fiske. Pp. xxxii+396, 12 plates, select bibliography, chronology, notes, index med. 8vo; yellow cloth, spine blocked in brown and lettered & decorated in gilt, boards slightly foxed, the bottom fore-corner of upper board faintly bruised; top edges brown; fore-edges of leaves a trifle foxed; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, the edges and backstrip faded; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Oxford University Press, London, 1975. First edition thus. Oxford English Memoirs and Travels series. *Originally published in 1826. 'Michael Kelly (1762?-1828) was the first British tenor to be acclaimed abroad, first in Italy then in Vienna where his success led to close friendship with Mozart and where he sang in the first performance of The Marriage of Figaro, 1786. Later, in London, Kelly was for many years an important figure both at Drury Lane and at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket' [wrapper blurb].
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