Dimensions 199 x 335 mm. Single leaf broadside. Some loss to left-hand edge and small tear to upper right-hand corner.

A playbill advertising the night's performance of Exchange no Robbery, or The Diamond Ring, a Comedy by known practical joker Theodore Hook (1788-1841). Most famous for the Berners Street Hoax of 1809, during which he invited countless men and women of note to a single house in Tottenham to win a bet with a friend, Hook is considered to be the first recipient of a postcard - likely mailed to himself. The evening's additional entertainment consists of a new Operetta, titled 'Love in Wrinkles or the Russian Strategem', and the ninth performance of Charles the XII, or The Siege of Stralsund, a two-act historical drama by James Robinson Planché (1796-1880) based on the life of said King of Sweden.