Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

James Miles : from Sadler's Wells in Islington, now keeps the Gun Musick-Booth in Smithfield-Rounds, during the time of Bartholomew Fair, will be shown such variety of sport and pastime the like not in all the fair. This is therefore to give notice to all gentlemen, ladies, and others, that there is come to this place the famous and ingenious Indian woman, that lifts six hundred weight with the hair of her head ... she likewise lies upon the ground with an anvil upon her breast, and suffers any man to strike with a hammer of sixteen pound weight to cut a piece of iron asunder ...

Accession number
PML 19327, leaf 096
Creator
Miles, James, d. 1724.
Published
[London : s.n., between 1699 and 1724]
Notes
James Miles appears to have operated the Gun Musick Booth from ca. 1699 to the time of his death in 1724.
Woodcut of a cannon at head of sheet.
Handbill mounted on the verso of leaf 96 of an extra-illustrated copy of George Daniel's An Elizabethan garland (London : Privately printed, 1856) (see PML 19327).
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcut) ; 17 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
In ink: Very curious and rare.
Provenance
From the libraries of Henry Huth and George Daniel.
Classification
Department