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The fashionable science of parlour magic

being a series of the newest tricks of deception, arranged for amateurs and lovers of the art. To which is added An exposure of the practice made use of by professional card players, blacklegs, and gamblers

by John Henry Anderson

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic: Being The Newest Tricks of Deception, Developed and Illustrated With An Exposure of the Practices Made Use of by Professional Card Players, Blacklegs, and Gamblers: To Which is Added, For the First Time, The Magic of Spirit Rapping, Writing Mediums and Table Turning. London, 1855.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

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

    • “Magic”· via Open Library
    • “Magic”· in title
    • “Magic”· in description
    • “Magic”· in subject
    • “Magic”· in edition title
  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Mediums” in the description and “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Spiritualism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Spiritualism”· via Open Library
    • “Mediums”· in description
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 14 editions; 2 cataloged here.

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1855-01-01T00:00:00Z—English—Public digitized item

being a series of the newest tricks of deception, arranged for amateurs and lovers of the art. To which is added An exposure of the practice made use of by professional card players, blacklegs, and gamblers

Open Library record

1850Baker, Godwin, & company, printersEnglish—No ebook

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  • 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.
  • Open Library reports 14 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL3862509W
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