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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Here collected together for the first time are 48 large, full-color, rare posters, 1890s-1940s, superbly reproduced from originals. Printed in extra large format so that even small details can be clearly seen, the posters feature many of the greats of the American circus: acrobats, clowns, Gargantua, etc., from Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey, Sparks, more. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Paperback: | 48 pages | | Publisher: | Dover Publications | | Publication Date: | November 01, 1978 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0486236935 | | Product Length: | 14.16 inches | | Product Width: | 10.24 inches | | Product Height: | 0.12 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.7 pounds | | Package Length: | 13.8 inches | | Package Width: | 10.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.4 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 5 reviews |
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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Beautiful selection Jun 22, 2009
By Bozhoo
"DooWiki"
The poster examples span from the last decade of the 19th century to the 1930s and include different shows, not just Ringling & Barnum. There are wonderful images of polar bears, seals, oriental wrestlers, an assortment of Africa animals, goofy machines, and of course, your typical acrobats, trained horses, exotic costumes, and clowns. The art beautifully preserves the lithograph look. The pages are fine enough to frame if you choose. A brief paragraph is included with each poster for reference, date, history about the circus, etc.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Amazing! Nov 30, 2007
By S. Myers
Wow, this book of circus posters is amazing! I love the old circus and needed to find good illustrations for an elaborate tattoo. I can't stop flipping through the pages. Anyone will enjoy this book!
LOVE THE OLD-TIME GRAPHICS Mar 16, 2012
By Jeffrey Riedy
I bought this book for inspiration and research, in preparation for a stage production of BARNUM. The imagery is fantastic and the inspiration was priceless. It brought me back into the era when the Circus was a vitsl part of our society, an element all but forgotten today.
 The greatest shows on earth Dec 20, 2011
By Chrijeff
The years 1880-1930 were the great day of the travelling circus and its indispensable advertising adjunct, the oversize, full-color poster. Intended to catch the attention of the (often small-town or country) audience and lure it to the showgrounds, the posters here reproduced--sometimes rather overcrowded, sometimes elegantly simple--feature such classic circus elements as bareback riders, liberty horses, clowns (one poster consists of nothing but, over 20 of them in full makeup), acrobats, aerialists, daredevils (such as Mlle. Mauricia de Tires's "Auto Bolide Thrilling Dip of Death"), menageries, tableaux vivantes, street parades and Grand Marches, exotics such as presentations based on Bedouin tribal caravans or tales of the Arabian Nights, hippodrome races, and "wild" animals--elephants, lions (eight of them in one cage), tigers (eight of those, plus a black panther, under the eye of a female trainer), bears (10 brown ones or six polars, the latter appearing teamed with two great Danes and a pair of Shetland ponies), seals, the famous gorilla Gargantua the Great. There's even an act featuring no less than 16 performing housecats! Many of the posters feature the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey show that most of us know, but there are also an assortment of others that were famous and successful in their day, such as Sells-Floto and Adam Forepaugh. Circus fans and lovers of colorful representational art will enjoy this oversize Dover volume.
great but not quite as expected Sep 25, 2011
By Erica
was hoping for more of the sideshow/ circus freak posters. all poster were vibrant and great to look through, lots to see. enjoyable none the less!
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