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Now exhibiting : at the Cosmorama Rooms, No. 290, Regent Street : The Marquis of Liliput! Don Francisco Hidalgo 42 years old - 29 inches high the smallest "man" ever created! / Cosmorama Rooms.

Birth extraordinary! Patronized by royalty : Just arrived Hartley's unequalled exhibition : To be seen alive in a commodious caravan, in Broadwall, opposite the Mitre, New Cut, Lambeth : Mast. Daniel Hartley, the great Goliah of the day, or the wonder of the age ... the above youth is accompanied and contrasted by The Devonshire Dwarf! Mr Thomas Bartlett, or the man in miniature.

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Now exhibiting : at the Cosmorama Rooms, No. 290, Regent Street : The Marquis of Liliput! Don Francisco Hidalgo 42 years old - 29 inches high the smallest "man" ever created! / Cosmorama Rooms.