Magician's Own Book

Magician's Own Book or the Whole Art of Conjuring was published by Dick & Fitzgerald 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.

The 362 page volume borrowed from such sources as Wyman's Handbook (1850), Endless Amusements, Parlour Magic and Brewster's Natural Magic.

Also published by William Henry Cremer, Junior in London (1871)

References

• Origins of Some Conjuring Works By Charles L. Rulfs