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The Magician's Own Book

The Harp of a Thousand Strings

Reading edition

OR, LAUGHTER FOR A LIFETIME.

And peculiarly prepared to produce prolific PEALS OF LAUGHTER. The very quintessence of HUMAN WIT, WAGGERY and WISDOM.

400 Pages of the most Mirth-Provoking Literature ever printed.

It contains more than a Million Laughs, and is Illustrated with 200 Comic Cuts.

The pictures are all original, designed by some of our best artists (including Darley), and the collection of droll conceits and queer stories is unsurpassed, having been several years in preparation.

Large 12 mo, nearly 400 pages, Illustrated with 200 Comic Engravings, and bound in fine Cloth, with gilt side and back stamp.

PRICE ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.

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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