The Ricky Jay Collection

The Ricky Jay Collection

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(Conjuring) | Earliest recorded edition of a rare work

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

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3,000 - 5,000 USD

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(Conjuring)

The Universal Conjuror; Or the Whole Art of Legerdemain as Practised by the Famous Breslaw, Katterfelto, Jonas, Flockton, Comas, and by the Greatest Adepts in London and Paris... London: T. & J. Allman, 1829


12mo (180 x 110 mm). Folding hand-colored frontispiece with image of a conjuror, devil, and skeleton, title within rules, 28pp.; splits to folds of frontispiece reinforced with tissue, inner margins reinforced with tissue, minor marginal soiling to a few leaves, or two closed marginal tears. Original printed wrappers; soiling and tears, primarily marginal loss, margins repaired with tissue. 


The earliest edition of a scarce work “[c]ontaining a variety of tricks and deceptions with cards, cups and balls, automaton figures, German puddings, quicksilver, birds, eggs, rings, money, handkerchiefs, watches, &c.” There were at least four editions of this pamphlet printed between 1829 and 1832.


Rare.


REFERENCE:

Toole Stott 672

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