19th Century Conjuring Books: A Study of a Private Collection

19th Century Conjuring Books: A Study of a Private CollectionThis text is an exploration of nineteenth century conjuring books based on the authors personal collection. With over 800 pages it identifies 216 different titles representing nearly 1000 editions and is accompanied by over 300 colour photographs. It is primarily a bibliographic study but also includes other topics such as the evolution of conjuring book production and bindings in the nineteenth century and a brief history of notable conjuring performers. The study includes a description of each book with details of; (i) known editions (ii) known variant editions or issues and (iii) the author publisher bookseller printer title pagination illustrations bindings content and other physical details. All books are referenced against previous bibliographies by Raymond Toole Stott Milbourne Christopher and Trevor Hall.