[CIRCUS]. Cooke's Royal Arena on Dock Green. Hull: Robert Brown, November 16 ca. 1840. One-color pictorial broadside advertising the ?First Night of Lord Byron's Mazeppa and the Wild Horse" at Dock Green, Hull. Featuring an engraving from Byron's story of Mazeppa, where he is tied to a horse and set loose as punishment for an affair with a countess. The performance is billed as ?A Grand Routine of Acrobatic, Classic, Operatic, and Gymnastic Entertainment with an Equestrian Jubilee Extraordinary." Minor creasing, tearing, and toning, particularly to bottom left corner. Very good. Dawes label to verso. 22 ? x 8 ?".