Breslaw's last legacy, or, The magical companion
Subtitle: containing all that is curious, pleasing, entertaining, and comical ...
Contributors: McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The fourth edition, with great additions and improvements.
Publisher: Printed for T. Moore ...
Published: 1784
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Magic tricks -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Breslaw's last legacy.; Magical companion.
Notes: "Selected from the most celebrated masters of deception as well as with slight [sic] of hand, as with mathematical inventions wherein is displayed the mode and manner of deceiving the eye as practised by those celebrated masters of mirthful deceptions, including the various exhibitions of those wonderful artists Breslaw, Sieur Comus, Jonas, &c. : also the interpretation of dreams, signification of moles, palmistry, &c., with a selection of the newest songs sung this season at Vauxhall, and other places of publick entertainment : jests, riddles, epigrams, and bon mots : the whole forming a book of real knowledge in the art of conjuration, with an accurate description of the method how to make the air balloon and inject the inflammable air."
By Philip Breslaw. Cf. R. Toole-Stott's A bibliography of English conjuring.
Signatures: A-L⁶.
LC copy has bookplate: J. Cresswell.
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.