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YOUNG, Wellington. Wellington Young, The Great Ventriloquist and Acknowledged First Professor of Natural Magic! [London]: Merser, 1855. Vertical two-column playbill for performances at Kennington Hall, with testimonials. Young performed for Her Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and an unnamed United States President during the mid-1800s. The bill proclaims that “On the occasion of this valedictory visit, his Progamme will be Extraordinary, his apparatus superb & costly, the arrangement of his Psycomantheum perfectly Novel, and the Power of his Magic Wand more inexplicably Potent”. 15 x 10”. Small tears to left edge, fading, chipping, with mounting tape remnants on verso.