PLEASE NOTE: We have the book available with and without the dust jacket. Please note that the dust jackets are shop worn and show some wear.

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 acknowledgments
In the Beginning

The Learned Animals
Bags, Bubbles & Bottles

The Phenomena
The Conjuring Quacks

Laughing Gas
Phantasmagoric Professors

The Jewish Connexion
Wizards From the North

Science et la Prestidigitation
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, dust jacketed, a great book for every magic library.