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YOUNG, William Henry (1821 - 74). YOUNG THE FAR FAMED AND JUSTLY CELEBRATED AMERICAN MAGICIAN. Boston: “Times” Job Office, 1853. Early pictorial advertising broadside for the magic show of Young at the City Hall, Roxbury. The wood-engraved full-length portrait of the performer shows him producing a multiplicity of objects from a giant cornucopia held in one hand as spectators look on. The second half of the show is occupied by the Conflagration of Moscow, a moving panoramic display. 21¾ × 7½". Linen backed.