(Conjuring) | Guidance on performing tricks and deceptions with cards

(Conjuring) 

The Universal Conjuror; Or, the Whole Art of Legerdemain, as Practiced by the Famous Breslaw, Katterfelto, Jonas, Flockton, Comas, and by the Greatest Adepts in London and Paris... London: W. Lewis, 1832

12mo (192 x 110 mm). Folding hand-colored frontispiece with image of a conjuror, devil, and snake, title within rules, 28pp.; split to fold of frontispiece reinforced with tissue, inner margins reinforced with tissue, minor offsetting. Original printed wrappers; soiling and loss, edges reimagined with tissue.

A rare work related to “tricks and deceptions with cards, cups and balls, automaton figures …” &c. There were at least four editions of this pamphlet printed between 1829 and 1832. (See previous lot.)

REFERENCE:

Toole Stott 673