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The Magician's Own Book

Art of Dancing without a Master;

Reading edition

Or, Ball Room Guide and Instructor.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

Hints on Etiquette; also, The Figures, Music and Necessary Instruction for the Performance of the most Modern and Improved Dances.

By EDWARD FERRERO, Professor of Dancing at West Point.

By the aid of which any one can attain a knowledge of the Art of Dancing without a Master. This work also contains

ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE PAGES OF THE CHOICEST MUSIC,

Arranged for the Piano Forte by the most celebrated Professors. The whole forming the most valuable and useful melange for the centre-table of the drawing-room ever published. The MUSIC alone, if purchased in separate sheets at any of the music stores, would cost ten times the price of the book. Thus you can obtain a History of Dancing, Hints on Etiquette, the Figures and Steps of all Dances, and Ten Dollars' worth of the Choicest Music FOR ONE DOLLAR.

Illustration from The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring Being a complete hand-book of parlor magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers.
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