The fashionable science of parlor magic
Subtitle: being a series of the newest tricks of deception, arranged for amateurs and lovers of the art : to which is added an exposure of the practice[s] made use of by professional card players, blacklegs, and gamblers
By: by Professor J.H. Anderson, the Great Wizard of the North.
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: 85th ed.
Publisher: Published by Stearns and Co.
Published: 1852
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Magic tricks -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Cardsharping
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Other titles: Great Wizard of the North's hand book of natural magic
Work titles: Fashionable science of parlour magic
Notes: Originally published in London [?] in the 1840s [?] under title: The fashionable science of parlour magic.

LC copy has ms. annotations:  Company property (on cover); sworn statement dated 23 Oct. 1852, p. [2] of cover; ms. table of contents, between p. [4] and [5].  Imperfect: wanting all after p. 66.

With:  D'Egerdon, Ebert. Aids to wizardry ... London, [1908] -- Haley, Louis Coleman. The dramatic art of magic ... Madison, Wis., [1910] -- Holmes, Donald. Some modern conjuring ... [United States], c1909 -- How to give conjuring and other entertainments ... London, [188-?] -- Kirsch, William. Scientific magical experiments ... [United States, c1909] -- Lustig, David J. Vaudeville magic ... 2nd ed. Somerville, Mass., 1920 -- Ovette, Joseph. Trickery tricks ... [Dundee Lake, N.J., c1917] -- Ovette, Joseph. Advanced magic ... [Dundee Lake, N.J.], c1919 -- Ovette, Joseph. Magician's new field ... [Dundee Lake, N.J.], c1916 -- Russell, W. Conjuring tricks ... London, [1908] -- Sleight of hand and second sight. [Great Britain?, between 1880 and 1900?] -- Society of American Magicians. Chicago Assembly No. 3. Program, Fourth Annual Mystery Show ... [Chicago, 1926].  Issued separately.