Recollections of Robert Houdin, clockmaker, electrician, conjuror.
Publisher: Chas. L. Burlingame]
Published: 1898
Place of publication: [Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
Subjects: Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène, 1805-1871; Magic tricks; Magicians -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Clarke, Sidney W. and Blind, Adolphe.  Bibliography of conjuring, p. 49.
Price, Harry.  Short-title catalogue of works on psychical research, p. 268.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 29)
Cover title.
Another issue appeared in the same year lacking the catalog for Chas. L. Burgame & Co., which comprises p. 30-74 of this issue.
Originally published : London : Sette of Odd Volumes, 1891.
Originally published as no. 24 of Privately printed opuscula, issued to the members of the Sette of Odd Volumes. This edition omits the part devoted to the minute explanation of Houdin's electrical clock.
Includes the text of the title page and the preliminary material of the original edition, which includes facsimiles of Robert Houdin's visiting card and his seal.
Issued in printed gray wrappers.