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[CIRCUS]. The Last Night of Timour the Tartar. [United States, ca. 1816]. One-color letterpress broadside playbill advertising an early American performance, in Philadelphia, of the equestrian circus founded in Britain by showman James West. In addition to the top-billed hippodrama, the show included Mrs. Williams’ act on horseback involving broad swords, Master Yeaman “still vaulting” from the back of a horse, and a slack rope performance by Mr. Blackmore. In 1817 James West would go on to build a new wooden circus structure on the east side of Manhattan in New York. 20 ¼ x 6 ½”. Creases, foxing and discoloration, dampstain to lower left corner.