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[FLEA CIRCUS]. Signor Bertolotto’s Extraordinary Exhibition of the Industrious Fleas. [London, ca. 1830s]. Small letterpress handbill (8 5/8 x 3 ¾”), illustrated with a woodcut of fleas drawing a carriage at the top, and a description several paragraphs long of the performance. Losses at bottom edge, affecting text. For a description of Bertolotto’s flea circus (“often called the inventor of the flea circus”), see Jay’s Journal R75R75, pp. 36-7.
[WITH]: a Larry Benner flea circus postcard; and two publicity photos for Benner (8 x 10”).