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A carriage to travel without horses : The proprietors of this extraordinary machine, respectfully inform the nobility, gentry, and others, that they purpose to exhibit it at the Royal-Circus, St. George's-Fields, ... until the 25th of this month, and no longer.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online I (ECCO) Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Surrey Theatre.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Advertising--Circus--Early works to 1800.
Advertising.
Genre:
Advertisements.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 sheet )
Other Title:
Carriage to travel without horses.
Place of Publication:
[London] : Kemmish, printer, no. 61, King-Street, Borough, [1789]
Notes:
Francis Douce, who saw the spectacle on 16 May 1789, noted on a copy of this handbill that the carriage "was very slowly impelled by a man concealed in the inside and no part whatever of its mechanism exposed to view".
Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T192910.
OCLC:
642522271

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