Brough & Boucicault's Grand Opera Burlesque Company :Forty thieves [programme cover] Theatre Royal, Wellington, ... commencing Monday, 23rd April 1888.

Programme is centrally placed and is surrounded by advertisements. Those on the front page are particularly interesting from a printing design aspect. The borders are filled with panels of engravings depicting birds and butterflies, plants and insects, and Chinese junks. Advertisers include: James J Curtis, shipping agent; James Campbell, jeweller; Ballinger Bros, corrugated iron merchants; the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel; J. E. Hayes, retailer of gas fittings; Singer sewing machines; Lonergan & Co., tailors; Central Hotel; Branch Hotel; Pier Hotel; and, Thompson, Shannon & Co.'s dissolution of partnership.

Exhibited in 'To market, to market' Exhibition of advertising and commercial ephemera from the Printed Ephemera Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. First Floor foyer, National Library of New Zealand, 5 August - 16 September 1997.

Extended Title - The Bulletin

Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (Back page): Bock & Cousins, Lithographic and General Printers, Brandon Street, Wellington.; Recto - centre - Published by Gardner & McDonald, Theatrical & Advertising Agents, ... Christchurch.

Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Physical Description: Letterpress, 381 x 253 mm (folded sheet)