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[VARIETY PERFORMERS]. Royal Dramatic College. London: Robert K. Burt, 1866. Tall one-color letterpress broadside playbill advertising a ?grand f?te and fancy fair? to take place at London?s Crystal Palace. The annual fundraising event to benefit the Royal Dramatic College featured musical and theatrical performances, a waxworks, Punch and Judy, magic by Professor Matthews, automata, a dog and cat show, fortune-telling, and spiral ascensionist Signor Ethardo (1825 - 1911), among other acts. Small unrelated playbill affixed to verso. 33 ? x 6 ??. Old horizontal creases, light foxing and soiling.