The Boy's own conjuring book
Subtitle: being a complete hand-book of parlour magic, containing an endless variety of optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, etc., etc., etc.
Contributors: McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Dick and Fitzgerald
Published: 1859
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Magic tricks -- Juvenile literature.; Magic tricks.
Other titles: Cottage library.
Notes: NUC pre-1956 (suppl.), NSB 0100252
Bound in green cloth, with name of British publisher (Milner & Sowerby) and series (Cottage library) on spine.
"Illustrated with nearly two hundred engravings."
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.