The old hocus pocus
Subtitle: being the anatomy of legerdemain, or the whole art of jugling, set forth in its proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly, so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same after a little practice : also, the trick of changing a card into a live bird, or into any picture : to which is added, The compleat vermin-killer.
Contributors: McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The fifteenth edition, with additions.
Publisher: Printed for R. Ware ... C. Hitch ... and J. Hodges ...
Published: 1740
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Magic tricks -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Vermin-killer. 1740.
Notes: Toole-Stott, R.  Conjuring, 373
First published in 1634.
Date of publication suggested by BLC and Toole-Stott.
Signatures: A-F¹².
Printers' advertisements: prelim. p. [1, 4, 7] and p. [136].
LC copy: closely trimmed, imprint cropped, some text pages shaved.
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.