- Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine with a vignette & decorative bands stamped in gilt on the front cover & in black on the rear cover. The binding is rubbed & bumped with some wear to the joints & with 3 small stains & a black mark to the front cover. 6 & 279 pages plus 40-page music catalog. The hinges are just starting. The pages are somewhat darkened & lightly foxed. Black-and-white portrait frontispiece. Good.

Third edition.

Nineteenth-century English tenor John Sims Reeves was a friend of Charles Dickens.

Scarce.

MUSIC; OPERA; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; JOHN SIMS REEVES; SIMS REEVES; OPERA SINGER; SINGER; TENOR; ENGLISH; BRITISH; PORTRAIT; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.