WYMAN, John (1816 – 81). VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE. WYMAN. [Philadelphia]: U.S. Job Print, Ledger Buildings, [ca. 1858]. Broadside replete with a wide range of typefaces and four wood-engraved images of Wyman in performance, for his show at the Assembly Buildings, and describing several of the features in his program including ventriloquism and a speaking automaton, a Spirit-Rapping Drum, the Ethereal Suspension, Inexhaustible Bottle, and over a dozen more. 21 x 8”. Old folds, tiny losses, stain in upper third, tacked to a stiff board. The bill lists numerous dignitaries before which Wyman has presented his tricks, including President Lincoln, Lord Napier, President Fillmore and his cabinet, among others. Readers are also advised that Wyman “will not promise exactly to restore the dead to life, nor yet engage in so many words to make spirit voices audible to common ears, but he will approach as near to it as the resources of science will permit.”