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The magic lantern

its construction and management : an illustrated manual showing how to make a magic lantern and how to produce many beautiful and startling effects (1888) [BP31-6]

by A Practised Hand

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  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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1888 edition of The magic lantern : its construction and management : an illustrated manual showing how to make a magic lantern and how to produce many beautiful and startling effects, by "A practised hand". Digitisation funded by V&A Americas Foundation through the generosity of The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. This National Art Library copy is in a bound volume of works acquired from the Royal Photographic Society with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.

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

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the title, “Magic” in the subtitle, “Magic” in the description, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

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    • “Magic”· in title
    • “Magic”· in subtitle
    • “Magic”· in description
    • “Magic”· in subject
    • “Magic”· in edition title

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its construction and management : an illustrated manual showing how to make a magic lantern and how to produce many beautiful and startling effects (1888) [BP31-6]

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1888-01-01T00:00:00Z—English—Public digitized item

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