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Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography
Author: Hopkins, Albert A.; Evans, Henry Ridgely
Title: Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography
Publication: New York: Munn & Co, 1897
Edition: First Edition
Description: Small quarto, xii, 556, [4] pages, publisher's original pictorial green cloth-covered boards. With Four Hundred Illustrations. Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography, edited by Albert A. Hopkins and first published in 1897, is an important late-19th-century illustrated work on stage magic, conjuring, theatrical illusion, scientific amusements, mechanical effects, and early photographic trickery. Profusely illustrated throughout, the volume examines stage apparatus, disappearing acts, optical illusions, automata, ventriloquism, mechanical devices, theatrical machinery, sleight-of-hand principles, and trick photography, while also placing these entertainments within the broader history of magic and popular science. The work includes discussion of celebrated magicians and illusionists such as Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, Alexander Herrmann, Robert Heller, and Signor Blitz, making it especially appealing to collectors and students of magic, conjuring, illusionism, theater history, photography, optical effects, Victorian science, entertainment history, and nineteenth-century popular culture. A substantial and visually engaging reference on the technology and spectacle behind the golden age of stage magic. Rear hinge cracked through, front hinge cracked, some sections of pages are a little loose, some rubbing and wear, a few small rips and some discoloration, else in good condition.
Seller ID: 577
Subject: First Editions, Hypnotism & Mesmerism, Photography, Theatre
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