The black art
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1788
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Notebooks, sketchbooks; Magicians; Mediums; Magic tricks
Description: Scrapbook probably assembled by  Harry Houdini.  Newspaper and magazine clippings, material removed from books (e.g. an engraving from an edition of Decremps), business cards, advertising cards and brochures, programs, handbills, and letterheads on magicians, magic tricks, and mediums and their methods.
Notes: Title from label pasted on front free-endpaper.

Bequest: Estate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.

Magician, escape artist, and inventor.