$1,500
Dean, H. [Henry]. The Whole Art of Legerdemain: or Hocus Pocus in Perfection. London: Printed for L. Hawes and Co., and S. Crowder,… 1772. Seventh Edition. Contemporary cloth. Woodcut frontispiece, woodcuts in text. 12mo. 2 leaves, p. 5 – 132, with a misprinted page number (96 inverted 69), and one page number (29) printed upside-down (the latter not noted in Toole Stott). Notations on the flyleaf not affecting the frontispiece; frontis. loose, curled at the gutter; text block loose; individual leaves with scattered browning, mostly confined to margins, the final leaf written upon in heavy ink. Toole Stott 208.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-05-31