Professor Pepper (John Henry) | The story of Pepper's Ghost, as told by Professor Pepper

Professor Pepper (John Henry)

The True History of the Ghost; and All About Metempsychosis. London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1890

16mo (185 x 125 mm). Folding frontispiece illustration, title with woodcut, woodcut headpiece, 3 printed illustrations, 7 leaves of publisher's advertisements at end. In original cloth backed pictorial boards; rubbed at extremities with exposure at corners, wear to spine head and tail with fraying.

Here Professor Pepper traces the development and exhibition history of his famous Pepper's Ghost, as well as an illustration of the stage arrangement. Also included are reprinted reviews and anecdotes from newspapers, and an account of a later illusion, Metempsychosis, along with diagrams and explanations for correcting the proper apparatuses for it.