Early American edition of Modern Magic. Pictorial cloth bound with gilt. Numbers 563 pages full of illustrations and if you like early magic a book to which you will often refer.

Chapters on: Introduction - Introductory Observations - Magic Wand - Magician’s Table - Magician’s Dress. General Principles of Sleight of Hand Applicable to Card Tricks, Card Tricks with Ordinary Cards, and Not Requiring Sleight of Hand, Tricks Involving Sleight of Hand or the Use of Specially Prepared Cards, Card Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus (Sword, Rising Cards, Jumping Cards, Make a Card stand upright by itself on a Table, Changing Card Boxes and Tricks performed with them, Mechanical Card Box, Card and Bird Box, Card Tripod, Torn Card, Mechanical Changing Cards), Principles of Sleight of Hand More Especially Applicable to Coin Tricks, Tricks With Coins Without Apparatus, Tricks With Coin Requiring Special Apparatus, Tricks With Watches (Watch Mortar and Magic Pistol, Snuff Box Vase, Watch Box to name a few), Tricks With Rings, Tricks With Handkerchiefs, Tricks With Dominoes and Dice, The Cups and Balls, Ball Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus (Ball Box, Vases, Morison’s Pill Box, Obedient Ball to name a few), Hat Tricks (Cannon Balls in the Hat, Multiplying Balls, Birdcages from the Hat, Welsh Rabbit to name a few), Miscellaneous Tricks (Grandmother’s Necklace, Bonus Genius or Vanishing Doll, Bottle Imps, Vanishing Gloves, Egg Bag, Pillars of Solomon, Rice and Orange Trick, Drawer Boxes, The Cone or Skittle, The Butterfly Trick, Vanishing Canary Bird and Cage, Umbrella Trick, Passe Passe Trick to name a few), Stage Tricks (Indian Basket Trick, Electrical Tricks - Light and Heavy Chest - Spirit Rapping - Magic Bell - Crystal Cash Box - Magic Drum, Aerial Suspension to name a few), Concluding Observations (Hints to Working up Tricks, Arrangement of Programme, Stage Arrangements, Parting Counsels). Appendix Chapters on: Kempelen (Kempelen’s Speaking Figure, Houdin, Magic Clock, Orange and Rose Trees to name a few), Théoden (Magic Windmill, Col. Stodare’s Living Head, Fatima to name a few), Automata Psycho (Automation of Messrs, Maskelyne and Cooke, Psycho and its Imitators, Zoe, Fanfare), Marionettes (The Living Marionettes), Clairvoyance (Reading of Concealed Writing, Addition of Unseen Figures to name a few), Spiritualism (Mediums and their Pretences, Their Tests, Floating In The Air, Floating Tambourines, Guitars, etc., Spiritual Music Box, Writing on the Ceiling, Invisible Writing, The Floating Table), Parlor Magic (Indian Sand Trick, “Q” Trick, Chinese Pictures, Hautler’s Great Ink and Water Trick, Carrying Fire in the Hands).

Corner bump to front cover, 1/8” soil spot to foredge, title page and adjoining pages. Condition very fine.