Entertainment ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Mostly before 1850, they include: M. Martinez, the Incombustible Spaniard (1824), Catch fortune while you can (spelled out in pictograms), Drawing of the lottery in Guildhall, 1751 (from p. 1019 of the every-day book - August 25 (1826?), Fortune favors the fair (poem with a woodcut of a young woman holding a lottery ticket, January 22, 1807), Riddle XIV of Ingenious riddles, songsheet of 'The dispute of the Gods decided by Venus', poems or song lyrics to: 'I've been roaming' and 'Isabel', John Anderson my Jo., Low down in the broom, It was upon a Lammas night, The banks of Doon, Land of the Leal, Lubin is away (Glasgow, 1828), a political satire poem about 'Prince Albert in England' (February 1840), 'Which is the fairest wreath of Earth : ballad' by Mrs. Drawbridge, Young Phaeton's downfall, Théâtre du Vaudeville: Album des Théâtres, 1837, pp. 19-22 of The Virgin Widow, a 1649 play by Francis Quarles (1592-1644), Avviso al pubblico (about performances by the English magician, Filippo Jonas, who specialised in card tricks), 'Whose blood' by Alex Burger (at The Old Operating Theatre, St. Thomas Street, London, 2011), 'The female bone-setter of Epsom' (Oct. 1736, Flea circus (ca.1815?), Double-sighted beautiful dog, ourang outans (Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly), South African Museum (1837), Prosopographus, the automaton artist (1828), Mechanism representing the temple of Persepolis in Persia, Stained glass (1823), Bologna's exhibition (Sans Pareil Theatre, Strand, London (1817), Missourium Theristocaulodon from Koch's Antediluvian Museum, the Missouri Leviathan, Concerto in Dorset Gardens (1808), William Bullock's museum, Royal Vauxhall Nassau balloon (Salford Gas Works, Manchester, 1837), 213rd Sächsische Landes-Lotterie (Germany, 1938 featuring a very blond, aryan looking girl).