Circus, Sideshow & Oddities

[Equestrian Circus] Royal Circus. A New Burletta, Called, The English Lion / The Stolen Nosegay / Horsemanship. [London]: Geoghegan, (No. 3), Ken-Street, 1786. Double-sided letterpress playbill featuring burlettas, dances, pantomime, and, at bottom, equestrianism, including “Hughes’s incomparable Little Devils, and Sagacious Horses” who “will leap from one and two horses through a hogshead suspended in the air by a rope, and alight on the saddles; also leap from one horse over a garter, and through a tub, in a manner really surprising.” 4to (10 x 7 ½”). Old sharp folds; upper margin a bit ragged.