A magnificent book, loaded with rare illustrations, etchings, photos, drawings,playbills,posters,etc.,and written in fine style by Dr.Dawes of Hull University in England.

This book on magic and magicians covers many subjects:

Introduction and acknowledgements In the Beginning

The Learned Animals Bags, Bubbles & Bottles

The Phenomena he Conjuring Quacks

Laughing Gas Phantasmagoric Professors

The Jewish Connexion Wizards From the North

Science et la Presdigitation They also Conjured

Egypt and the Spinx Maskelyne & Cooke

The Great Gun Trick Sounds, Shadows, & Shackles

Epilogue References & Notes Index

216 large sized pages, several hundred illustrations. Bound, gold lettered, dust jacketed, a great book for eery magic library.