Mr. Zucker | A wonderfully detailed account of a mid-century magic performance

Mr. Zucker

This is to give Notice to the Nobility and Gentry, that the Famous Mr. Zucker is just returned from abroad … [London?: np, ca. 1761] 

Broadside (302 x 190 mm). Text within decorative border, mounted on paper, verso of mount with unrelated notes and ink and watercolor sketch of a fisherman; old folds to broadside, minor soiling and spotting.  

A remarkably detailed account of the famous Mr. Zucker's performance, including the following tricks: cutting off a pigeon's head with a sword by "only drawing the Sword through the Pigeon's Shadow in a Looking-Glass"; "cause a Flower to be brunt to Ashes, and out of the same Ashes he brings it to be a flower again, as it was before"; "cut any of the Spectator's Handkerchief, or even a Piece of Coat, and will make both whole again as before," and many other remarkable feats.