Breslaw's last legacy, or, The magical companion
Subtitle: containing all that is curious, pleasing, entertaining and comical ... including the various exhibitions of those wonderful artists, Breslaw, Sieur Comus, Jonas, &c ... with an accurate description of the method how to make the air balloon and inject the inflammable air.
Contributors: Breslaw, Philip, 1726-1803.; Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: The fifth edition / with great additions and improvements.
Publisher: Printed for W. Lane ...
Published: 1791
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Magic tricks -- Early works to 1800.; Balloons -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Breslaw's last legacy; Magical companion
Notes: ESTC N31950
May have been compiled by Philip Breslaw.
Signatures: A⁶ B-F¹².
"... Selected from the most celebrated masters of deception, as well with slight 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 ... 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 public entertainment, jests, riddles, epigrams, and bon mots, the whole forming a book of real knowledge in the art of conjuration ..."