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MORITZ. Mr. Moritz Will Exhibit his Wonderful Performances. [Hull]: W. Rawson Printer, Lowgate, 1805. Letterpress playbill for the mixed bill presented by Moritz, including card tricks, trained birds, a slack wire act, and “The Real Phantasmagoria,” the latter illustrated by a woodcut of a specter vanishing into a circle ringed by signs of the zodiac on the floor below it. 17 ½ x 7”. Provenance: Henry Evanion and J.B. Findlay collections; the bill bears Evanion’s signature and initials on the verso and was offered as part of the Findlay collection at Sotheby’s on July 4, 1980. Dawes Collection label to verso.
Findlay described a quarrel between Mortiz and Ingleby in his Sixth Collectors Annual (1954) using this bill to illustrate the tale.