The fashionable science of parlour magic
Subtitle: being the newest tricks of deception, developed and illustrated : with an exposure of the practices made use of by professional card players, blacklegs, and gamblers ; To which is added for the first time The magic of spirit rapping, writing mediums, and table turning, &c., &c.
By: by J.H. Anderson, "The Great Wizard of the North".
Contributors: Anderson, J. H. 1814-1874.; McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: 100th ed. of Parlour magic, 30th ed. of Spirit rapping.
Publisher: Great Wizard of the North
Published: 1853
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Magic tricks; Table-moving (Spiritualism)
Other titles: Magic of spirit rapping, writing mediums, and table turning; Shilling's worth of magic.; Tricks to be learnt in a train.; Spirit rapping exposed.; One shilling's worth of magic.
Notes: Upper cover title: A shilling's worth of magic, or, Tricks to be learnt in a train.
Lower cover title: Spirit rapping exposed.
Although most pages of this ed. are printed from the same typesetting as that used in earlier editions printed by Francis, not a few have been corrected or completely rewritten.
In the port. the author is shown standing.