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Three Wonderful Phoenomena, Wild Born of the Human Species: / Each with a Monstrous Craw under the Throat?N.p., n.d. [London, ca. 1787]. Letterpress handbill, illustrated with a woodcut, advertising the exhibition at No. 4, Capel-Court, opposite the Bank of England, Bartholomew-Lane, of ?Two Females and Male, of a very Small Stature, being a little less or more than Four Feet High, each with a Monstrous Craw? (or goiter), and supposedly native to a remote region of South America. 12 3/8 x 7 7/8?. Backed on paper (faint folds, minor spotting, one mended tear in lower text). Cf. BM 1914,0520.668.