Alfred Mellon's concerts : benefit of Mr. Alfred Mellon and positively the last night of his concerts this season. Programme. Saturday evening, October 12th, 1861. Overture, "William Tell," Rossini ... The Italian symphony, (the entire work) Mendelssohn ... Part II. Don Giovanni, Mozart ... New quadrille, "The Shakespeare," Coote ... Laughing song (Manon Lescaut) Auber Madlle Parepa ... Beethoven's Battle piece! Descriptive of the battle & victory of Vittoria ... "God save the Queen." ... Promenade one shilling. ...

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At head of sheet, at left: Theatre Royal Covent Garden.
Single sheet, broadside format, with the text formatted as two pages on the recto, imposed side by side on one side of the sheet and intended to be read left to right.
Library's copy has a section of the right hand side of the sheet replaced with a strip of printed paper pasted into the sheet, providing the words (in French) to Auber's "Laughing song" from Manon Lescaut.
With a clipping pasted over the final stanza of Auber's "Laughing song", with the words to a single stanza printed in English.