Set Reminder2025-02-15 12:00:002025-02-15 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : The Collection of Edwin A. Dawes Part III https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/the-collection-of-edwin-a-dawes-part-iii-21889 Our final single-owner sale from the Dawes collection is rich with conjuring curiosa of all types, including early broadsides, memorabilia from the Theatre Robert-Houdin, early and important magic textbooks, unusual Victorian apparatus, and bright stone lithographs from the golden age of the art.
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DEAN, Henry. Hocus Pocus, or the Whole Art of Legerdemain in Perfection. Glasgow: [Robert Anderson], 1886 (facsimile of the 1797 Glasgow edition). Plain paper-backed covers, printed spine label. Frontispiece. Illustrated. 4to. Bookplates of Edwin Dawes and Richard Armour. Foxed, spine chipped. See Toole Stott 222. A note preceding the text states, ?The price of this four shillings and sixpence. If you cannot raise four shillings and sixpence honestly, do not buy the book." This is the variant printing produced on cheaper paper.