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* Be carefull! The book with the same title published by William Henry Cremer, Junior in London in 1871 IS NOT a reprint of Dick & | * Be carefull! The book with the same title published by William Henry Cremer, Junior in London in 1871 IS NOT a reprint of Dick & Fitzgerald. | ||
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Revision as of 01:51, 31 August 2011
| Magician's Own Book | |
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| Author | Anonymous |
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| Publisher | Dick & Fitzgerald |
| Publication Date | 1857 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 362 |
The Magician's Own Book or the Whole Art of Conjuring was published by Dick & Fitzgerald from New York in 1857, author unknown. Advertisement: Being a complete hand-book of parlor magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers : the whole illustrated with over 500 wood cuts, and intended as a source of amusement for one thousand and one evenings.
Many libraries list authors under George Arnold but could possibly have been written by H. L. Williams with assistance from John Wyman.[1]
The 362 page volume borrowed from such sources as Wyman's Hand-Book of Magic (1851), Endless Amusements (1815), Parlour Magic (1838) and Brewster's Letters on Natural Magic (1832).
Editions
- Be carefull! The book with the same title published by William Henry Cremer, Junior in London in 1871 IS NOT a reprint of Dick & Fitzgerald.
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