The Great Illusionists - Edwin Dawes 1st Edition
©1979 Chartwell Books, Inc., NJ
Printed in Great Britain
Hardcover, w/Dust Jacket, 8x10", 216 pages

Comments: Excellent Clean and Tight Book

Contents

6 Illustrations
8 Introduction and Acknowledgements
11 In the Beginning
26 The Learned Animals
35 Bags, Bubbles and Bottles
52 The Phenomena
61 The Conjuring Quacks
71 Laughing Gas
83 Phantasmagoric Professors
93 The Jewish Connexion
108 Wizards From the North
121 Science et la Prestidigitation
131 They Also Conjured
141 Egypt and the Sphinx
155 Maskelyne & Cooke - Royal Illusionists
169 The Great Gun Trick
184 Sounds, Shadows & Shackles
203 Epiloque
204 Reference & Notes
212 Index