Author(s): Dawes, Edwin Media: Books Format: Hardbound with Dust Jacket Publication Summary: 216 pages 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.
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