The Boy's own conjuring book
Subtitle: being a complete hand-book of parlour magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, charades, enigmas, rebuses, etc., etc., etc. : intended as a source of amusement for one thousand and one evenings.
Contributors: McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Dick and Fitzgerald
Published: 1860
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Magic tricks -- Juvenile literature.; Magic tricks.; Amusements.
Other titles: Conjuring and magic.; Tricks, puzzles, magical experiments, &c., &c.
Notes: BLC, v. 40, p. 83
NUC pre-1956 (suppl.), NSB 0100253
Cover title: Conjuring and magic : tricks, puzzles, magical experiments, &c., &c.
On spine: Boys own conjuring book : 200 engravings.
"Illustrated with nearly two hundred engravings."
Bound in red cloth. Plate is unsigned and bordered in red.
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.