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
Length87h 21m
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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 21 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring
2PREFACE.
3THE YOUNG CONJUROR.
4TRICKS WITH CARDS.
5THE MAGIC OF CHEMISTRY.
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6AMUSEMENTS IN ELECTRICITY, GALVANISM AND MAGNETISM.
7THE MAGIC OF PNEUMATICS AND AËROSTATICS.
8TRICKS IN MECHANICS.
9TRICKS IN HYDRAULICS. (pt. 1)
10TRICKS IN HYDRAULICS. (pt. 2)
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
18PREFACE.
19BOOK I. CONJURERS’ TRICKS AND STAGE ILLUSIONS.
20CHAPTER I. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES.
21CHAPTER II. OPTICAL TRICKS.
22CHAPTER III. MISCELLANEOUS STAGE TRICKS.
23CHAPTER IV. CONJURING TRICKS. (pt. 1)
24CHAPTER IV. CONJURING TRICKS. (pt. 2)
25CHAPTER VIII. SHADOWGRAPHY.
26CHAPTER IX. MENTAL MAGIC.
27BOOK II. ANCIENT MAGIC.
28BOOK III. SCIENCE IN THE THEATER.
29CHAPTER III. STAGE EFFECTS.
30CHAPTER IV. THEATER SECRETS.
31CHAPTER V. THE NAUTICAL ARENA.
32CHAPTER VI. A TRIP TO THE MOON.
33CHAPTER VII. CYCLORAMAS.
34BOOK IV. AUTOMATA AND CURIOUS TOYS.
35BOOK V. PHOTOGRAPHIC DIVERSIONS.
36APPENDIX.
37The Old and the New Magic
38INTRODUCTION. BY DR. PAUL CARUS.
39HISTORY OF NATURAL MAGIC AND PRESTIDIGITATION.
40THE CHEVALIER PINETTI.
41CAGLIOSTRO—A STUDY IN CHARLATANISM.
42GHOST-MAKING EXTRAORDINARY.
43THE ROMANCE OF AUTOMATA.
44ROBERT-HOUDIN—CONJURER, AUTHOR AND AMBASSADOR.
45SOME OLD-TIME CONJURERS.
46THE SECRETS OF SECOND SIGHT.
47THE CONFESSIONS OF AN AMATEUR CONJURER.
48A DAY WITH ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
49A TWENTIETH CENTURY THAUMATURGIST.
50A GENTLEMAN OF THIBET.
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