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[CIRCUS]. Group of Two Newspapers with Full-Column Illustrated Ads for Circuses, including: Lynchburg Daily News. Vol. XXIV, No. 78. Lynchburg, VA, October 15, 1877. Four folio pages on one large folio sheet (split at central vertical fold). Each page approximately 586 x 442 mm. Central horizontal crease, some minor edgewear. On p. 4 is a full-column ad for “First and Only Visit of P. T. Barnum’s New and Only Greatest Show on Earth” with three engraved illustrations. And The Las Vegas Daily Optic, Vol. 2, No. 183. Las Vegas, N. M. [Territory], June 7, 1881. Four folio pages on one large folding sheet. Each page approximately 541 x 392 mm. Toned, one central horizontal crease, some soiling, some chipping at left margins indicating that this was excised from a book, a few marginal tears. On p. 1 is a full-column ad for “At Las Vegas Thursday, June 23rd. All the World Over The Biggest and Best: Surpassing Even the Famed Coliseum at Rome Now Returning from a Tour in Foreign Lands W. W. Cole’s Absolutely New Mammoth Circus…” With three engraved illustrations.