This antique book contains a guide to learning a variety of interesting and impressive magic tricks and illusions that require little in the way of skill, previous experience, or special equipment. Complete with simple, step-by-step instructions coupled with helpful illustrations, this is a text that will be of much value to the amateur magician and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of antique conjuring literature. Many old books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are proudly republishing this text here complete with a new introduction on magic tricks.