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Endless Amusements: or, The Art of Legerdemain Made Easy to Young Persons. Boston: Theodore Abbot, 418 Washington Street, 1846. Twelfth Edition. Publisher’s tan pictorial boards, bearing the title The Art of Legerdemain, rebacked. Woodcut frontispiece of a drawing room conjuror performing the cups and balls, as on cover. Illustrated with figures and woodcuts. 12mo. p. [1 –5] 6 – 108. Covers chipped and soiled, hinges reinforced, heavily foxed. Toole Stott 273.


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