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INGLEBY'S WHOLE ART OF LEGERDEMAIN, CONTAINING ALL THE TRICKS AND DECEPTIONS (Never before published) as performed by the Emperor of Conjurors, AT THE MINOR THEATRE, WITH COPIUS EXPLANATIONS.
by INGLEBY, Thomas.:
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London, T. Hughes, Ludgate-Street and C. Chaple Pall-Mall, circa 1815.. TITLE CONTINUED: Also, several new and astonishing, Philosophical and Mathematical Experiments, With Preliminary Observations, Including Directions for practising the SLIGHT OF HAND. Circa 1815. David Price's copy with small bookplate at bottom of first pastedown. Small 8vo bound in sixes, approximately 165 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, WITH THE ORIGINAL HAND COLOURED FRONTISPIECE DATED 1815, pages: [iv], vi xxiv, [1], 2-106, including half-title but lacking last blank leaf, rebound in black cloth, new endpapers, gilt lettering to spine and gilt name on upper cover of David Price, pages untrimmed. Pale brown offset to title page from frontispiece, pale address stamp to blank side of half-title and a few ink stamp numbers to lower margin of final page, otherwise a very good clean copy. David Price probably the author of A Pictorial History of Conjurers in the Theater. See: Toole Stott, A Bibliography of English Conjuring, page 142, No. 410; Trevor Hall, A Bibliography of Books on Conjuring in English, page 59, No, 189; Clarke and Blind, The Bibliography of Conjuring, page 41; Finlay Collection, Part 1, page 75, No. 358; Edgar Heyl, A Contribution to Conjuring, page 34 No. 182; Harry Price Short-Title Catalogue to Psychical Research, Volume 1, page 232. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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- Roger Middleton
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- Title
- INGLEBY'S WHOLE ART OF LEGERDEMAIN, CONTAINING ALL THE TRICKS AND DECEPTIONS (Never before published) as performed by the Emperor of Conjurors, AT THE MINOR THEATRE, WITH COPIUS EXPLANATIONS.
- Author
- INGLEBY, Thomas.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, T. Hughes, Ludgate-Street and C. Chaple Pall-Mall, circa 1815.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- conjuring magic tricks sleight slight of hand legerdemain ingleby
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