(Giants and Little People) | "The Public have now an Opportunity ... of beholding the Wonderful Contrast betwixt Giants and a Dwarf"

(Giants and Little People)

A group of twelve broadsides

Paap, Simon. The Smallest Man. Lambeth: T. Romney, [ca. 1815]. Letterpress handbill (225 x 153 mm). Printed on blue paper; brown spot to foot, old folds and creases. — Mr. Smith, et al. Wonders will Never Cease! ... the Northamptonshire Youth! Lambeth: T. Romney, [1821]. Letterpress handbill (273 x 142 mm). Large woodcut royal arms to head, hand-dated at foot; stray spots, browning at bottom edge, piece of paper adhered to recto. — Don Santiago de los Santos. King of All Dwarfs and His Wife. London: Jaques, [ca. 1836]. Letterpress handbill (225 x 145 mm). Woodcut portrait of Don Santiago and his wife to center; old horizontal fold, creases, browning to upper corners. — Eleizegui, Joachim. The Spanish Goliah! [London]: np, [1847]. Printed handbill (253 x 185 mm). Hand-dated at head; old fold, a little offsetting. — Admiral Van Tromp. The Smallest Man in the World. [London]: Crocier & Mullin, [1849]. Printed handbill (250 x 190 mm). Hand-dated at head; a few pinholes, tiny chips at margins. — The Fairy Queen. Now exhibiting at the Cosmorama Rooms ... The Wonder of the Age. [London]: Crozier & Mal[...], [1850]. Printed handbill (252 x 185 mm). Hand-dated at head; old folds, chipped at bottom right corner. — The Lapland Giantess. The most Extraordinary Novelty in London! [London]: Percival, [1851]. Printed handbill (185 x 130 mm). Hand-dated in ink at head; tipped on to a sheet of paper, three marginal tears where tipped on, tiny chip at head. — General Tiny Mite, Colonel Chang Yu Sing. A Few Words Respecting Giants and Midgets. London: np, [1883]. Hand-dated in ink at head; a few spots. — Hartley, Daniel, Thomas Bartlett. The Great Goliah ... [and] the Devonshire Swarf. Lambeth: J.W. Peel, nd. Letterpress handbill (250 x 120 mm). Printed in several typefaces; a little browning, creasing and some small chips to margins. — Hatch, Isaiah A. The Little Man ... Lines Composed by Olivia C. Harriman. Np: [ca. 1889]. Printed broadside (250 x 146 mm). Ruled in decorative border; stray spot, creases. — Emanuel, Colibri and David. Gebirgs-Riese oder Rieese aller Riesen ... in Begleitung der briden Bwerge. Mitau: [...] Steffenhagen und Sohn, nd. Letterpress playbill (615 x 480 mm). Large woodcut vignette to center, two smaller woodcuts to head, vertical and horizontal type; long repaired tear at center, short closed tear to left margin, two old folds, a few creases at corners. — Fairy Queen. Now Exhibiting at H. Worster's ... The Smallest Living Wonder in the World. [London]: np, nd. Letterpress handbill (190 x 130 mm). Printed in blue; chipped at foot and right margin, small internal tear at head, paper adhered to verso at corners.

Handsome broadsides pertaining to giants and little people. While many of the playbills feature only one performer, some advertise duos being exhibited together, in order to further exaggerate their sizes: "The Great Goliah ... [and] ... As a contrast ... the Devonshire Dwarf"; "I now produce and show before you the greatest contrasts ever witnessed ... viz:— Colonel Chang Yu Sing | General Tiny Mite." Included among the playbills is a broadside of verse composed by "Olivia C. Harriman, of Wellfleet, Mass., at the age of eleven years" upon witnessing Isaiah A. Hatch.

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