Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 3
Contains 50 Results:
Broekman’s Circus and Great Monkey Performance Handbill, c1876
Duke’s Theatre also known as Theatre Royal Holborn, London. Two part show with monkeys, poodles and equestrian entertainment, 4pp.
Venice Preserved Handbill, 18 December 1815
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Also ‘Magpie or the Maid’.
Grand Parachute Descent Handbill, 13 June 1839
Mr Hampton, the distinguished Aeronaut at Cremorne House, Chelsea. Printed by G. Nurton, 48 New Church Street, Portman Market.
Grand Victorian Fete Handbill, 1 May 1851
Borini’s Bands of 100 Performers, Tableaux Vivants, The Balloon Ascent by the Celebrated Hampton, and Great Exhibition of Pyrotechniques, at Cremorne House, Chelsea. Only a shilling, balloon included. Printed by John K. Chapman and Company, 5 Shoe Lane and Peterborough Ct., Fleet Street.
Baronet Handbill, 1 April 1814
Sir John Dinely at Argyll Rooms, London. ‘A Lecture on his wonderful Marriage-Offer Wherein he will endeavour to prove that, generally, Women excel the Men in Understanding'.
General Tom Thumb Handbill, 21 -23 July 1846
Assembly Rooms Low Pavement, London. illustrated print with details added. Printed by Webb and Co., Litho., 8 Farringdon Street.
John Woolcott Handbill, 10 March 1843
The Muswell Hill Slasher exhibiting his far-famed dog Black Pinch at George’s Rooms, Westerham. Two dozen rats are let loose where John Woolcott’s dog will catch them.
Great Christmas Fete Handbill, 1874 - 1875
Games, attractions, bazaars and sideshows at Royal Agricultural Hall, ‘the greatest combination of exhibitions ever brought together under one roof’, 4pp. Printed by G. Tarrant & Co., 70 Liverpool Road, Islington, N.
Sanger’s Grand Circus Handbill, c1880
National Amphitheatre, Westminster Bridge Road, London, ‘To Conclude with the Fifth Act of Richard III and the great Battle of Bosworth Field and the death of White Surrey’, 4pp.
Pictures by Murillo Handbill, c1880 - 1899
28 Old Bond Street, London, ‘Comprising the Gallery Slave, the Negro Boy‘ among others. 4pp. Printed by W. Smith, King Street, Long Acre.
Dioastrodoxon Handbill, 14 - 17 March 1821
Mr Lloyd opening the Dioastrodoxon, Grand Transparent Orrery at Theatre of Astronomy, late the Minor Theatre, Catherine Street, Strand, London. Five scenes of the universe closing with the northern and southern celestial heavens. Printed by Glendinning, 25 Hatton Garden, London.
Greatest Living Phenomenas of Nature Handbill, c1847
Gigantic fat girl, Miss Holmes - two dwarf sisters, Miss Emma Patten, the Dorsetshire dwarf and her sister, Ellen Patten - great golden boa constictor, real Crocodiles, and strangling serpents. Private exhibitions can be arranged. Printed by J. Trives and Son, Portsea.
Bonassus Handbill, 1821
Newly discovered animal The Bonassus, at 287 Stand, London. ‘From the Apalachian mountains of America, is nearly seventeen Months old and Five Feet ten Inches high.’ A bison. Printed by Hewitt, No. 1 Prince’s Street, Drury Lane.
O’Brian the Irish Giant Illustration, 1893
Illustration featuring a giant at nearly nine feet high.
Theatre Royal Handbill, 31 December 1838
The Soldier's Daughter, comedy in 3 acts - The Sleeping Draught, farce in one act - Number Nip in Harlequin and the Gnome King - Beverley’s Grand Moving Diorama at Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.
Professor Kitchingman’s Performing Fleas Handbill, c1869
221 Regent Street. Contains review of precious performance.
Henry Aston Barker’s Panorama Handbill, 1815
Description of the representation of the Battle of Paris, fought on the 30th March, 1814. Circular illustration at Leicester Square, London.
The Royal Aquarium, and Summer and Winter Garden Society Programme, 7 February 1891
Royal Aquarium, London. Illustrated, 4pp. Printed by Phipps and Connor, 13 and 14 Tothill Street, Westminster.
The Famous Arions Handbill, 22 October c1866
Swiss Bell Ringers and Dave William the great Comic Artist. Programme describing performers with area left blank for over printing when touring, 4pp.
Babil and Bijou Handbill, 8 April 1882
The Lost Regalia - ballet, chorus, and music - by Dion Boucicault, F.R. Planche, Frank W. Green and G. Jacobi - at Alhambra Theatre, London. Grand Fairy Spectacular Opera. Illustrated borders, 4pp. Printed by Letts, Son and Co., London, EC.