Magic Tricks Collection: 16 Fascinating Books
Victorian and Edwardian Secrets of Sleight, Escapology, Illusion, and MisdirectionBy Albert A. Hopkins, Henry Ridgely Evans, A. Anderson, H. Boaz, Professor Hoffmann, L. H. Branson, Arthur Ainslie, Herbert De Caston, George Arnold, Frank Cahill, William K. David, Henry Perkins, Chung Ling Soo, Hercat, Hereward Carrington, Harry Houdini
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Magic Tricks Collection: 16 Fascinating Books surveys the rich, hybrid literature of conjuring: practical manuals, theatrical reflections, puzzle-like explanations, historical anecdotes, and accounts of illusion's psychological force. Its pages move between sleight of hand, apparatus magic, mind-reading, stage presentation, and the ethics of deception, revealing magic as both a craft and a form of popular performance. Standout material concerning escapes, exoticized stage personae, and the mechanics of misdirection situates the collection within the changing entertainments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The contributors bring together performers, inventors, collectors, journalists, and theorists of illusion, among them figures associated with professional magic's transition from parlour amusement to international spectacle. Their varied expertise illuminates the period's fascination with science, spiritualism, publicity, mechanical ingenuity, and the disciplined training behind apparently effortless wonders. Read collectively, these voices document a culture in which conjuring negotiated the boundaries between rational explanation and cultivated mystery. This volume is especially rewarding for readers of performance history, popular culture, and recreational literature, as well as aspiring magicians. It offers a rare opportunity to compare technical instruction with broader meditations on audience, character, and belief. By placing sixteen books in dialogue, the collection makes visible the diverse traditions that shaped modern magic.
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GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length87 hrs 5 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring
2The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring
3PREFACE.
4THE YOUNG CONJUROR.
5TRICKS WITH CARDS.
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6THE MAGIC OF CHEMISTRY.
7AMUSEMENTS IN ELECTRICITY, GALVANISM AND MAGNETISM.
8THE MAGIC OF PNEUMATICS AND AËROSTATICS.
9TRICKS IN MECHANICS.
10TRICKS IN HYDRAULICS.
11TRICKS IN GEOMETRY.
12PRACTICAL PARADOXES AND PUZZLES.
13ANSWERS TO PRACTICAL PUZZLES.
14SECRET WRITING.
15THE MAGIC OF STRENGTH.
16INQUIRE WITHIN
17Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography
18Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography
19PREFACE.
20BOOK I. CONJURERS’ TRICKS AND STAGE ILLUSIONS. (pt. 1)
21BOOK I. CONJURERS’ TRICKS AND STAGE ILLUSIONS. (pt. 2)
22BOOK I. CONJURERS’ TRICKS AND STAGE ILLUSIONS. (pt. 3)
23BOOK II. ANCIENT MAGIC.
24BOOK III. SCIENCE IN THE THEATER. (pt. 1)
25BOOK III. SCIENCE IN THE THEATER. (pt. 2)
26BOOK IV. AUTOMATA AND CURIOUS TOYS.
27BOOK V. PHOTOGRAPHIC DIVERSIONS.
28APPENDIX.
29The Old and the New Magic
30The Old and the New Magic
31INTRODUCTION. BY DR. PAUL CARUS.
32HISTORY OF NATURAL MAGIC AND PRESTIDIGITATION.
33THE CHEVALIER PINETTI.
34CAGLIOSTRO—A STUDY IN CHARLATANISM.
35GHOST-MAKING EXTRAORDINARY.
36THE ROMANCE OF AUTOMATA.
37ROBERT-HOUDIN—CONJURER, AUTHOR AND AMBASSADOR.
38SOME OLD-TIME CONJURERS.
39THE SECRETS OF SECOND SIGHT.
40THE CONFESSIONS OF AN AMATEUR CONJURER.
41A DAY WITH ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
42A TWENTIETH CENTURY THAUMATURGIST.
43A GENTLEMAN OF THIBET.
44MAGICIANS I HAVE MET.
45THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX.
46TREWEYISM.
47INDEX OF TRICKS AND ILLUSIONS
48The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin
49THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT-HOUDIN
50CHAPTER II THE ORANGE-TREE TRICK
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