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Endless mirth and amusement

a capital and clever collection of mirthful games, parlour pastimes, shadow plays, magic, conjuring, card tricks, chemical surprises, fireworks, forfeits, etc

by Charles Gilbert, George Cruikshank & publisher Dean & Son

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

At head of Title: A companion book to "Guess Me." Title vignette Date of publication from Price, British Museum, and Cohn [Actual contents order]:Mirthful games and parlour pastimes -- Tricks of conjuring, magic, and mystery -- Shadow pantomimes -- Ninety-and-five forfeits -- Fireworks and chemical surprises -- Sleight of hand and other tricks with cards Price, H. Short-title ctatlogue of works on psychical research ... Magee, D.B. Victoria R.I. Cohn, A. M. George Cruikshank 9 Contents are bound in a different order than appears on the Contents page on title page verso, which appears thus: I. Mirthful games and parlour pastimes -- II. Ninety-and-five forfeits -- III. Shadow pantomimes, or Harlequin in the shades -- IV. Conjuring, magic and mystery -- V. Sleight of hand and other tricks with cards -- VI. Fireworks and chemical surprises Bound in original dark red decorated cloth. Upper cover and spine stamped in gilt and black, with one green "E" on upper cover. Beveled edges. Dark brown endpapers. All edges gilt recat cat

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Parapsychology and psychical research and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subtitle, “Magic” in the description, “Magic” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

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  • Retained metadata contains “Psychical research” in the description.

    • Psychical research· in description

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a capital and clever collection of mirthful games, parlour pastimes, shadow plays, magic, conjuring, card tricks, chemical surprises, fireworks, forfeits, etc

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1874London : Dean & Son, St. Dunstan Buildings, 160A, Fleet Street, E.C.EnglishPublic

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  • Contributing institution: Harold B. Lee Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Brigham Young University
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
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openlibrary-work:OL17853988W
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