Advance Courier for the Great Cole Bro's World-Toured Shows.
A copiously illustrated advance courier for the Great Cole Brothers' Circus, with many attractions, including a miniature kangaroo, which is described as "Mite, the Infant Kangaroo, Which is Smaller than a Mouse..." Also listed are the bicycle daredevil M.lle D'Zizi, a blood sweating behemoth (a hippopotamus), black tigers, triple zoological gardens, Fosse's educated pigs and turkeys, and Kane's Arabian stallions.
This colorful copy has the rubber stamp of Rutland in the lower margin, "Thursday Aug '20".
Folio, 16pp, profusely illustrated, with double page chromolithographed central illustration of the big ring, with elephants and horses in the foreground, bicycles and acrobats in the middle ground, and camels and trick dogs in the background. Chromolithographed decorations and illustrations to front and rear covers. Staple bound. Two gentle horizontal creases, location stamp at foot of front cover, o/w very good. Item #15851
Price: $225.00