(Hocus Pocus) | "A Rich Cabinet of Legerdemain Curiosities"

(Hocus Pocus)

Hocus pocus: or, a rich cabinet of legerdemain curiosities, natural and artificial conclusions ... by J[ohn] White. London: Sold at the Ring in Little Britain, pr. 1s. as also Hill’s Legerdemain, and Arts Treasury, [?1715]

12mo (140 x 83 mm). Woodcut frontispiece composed of 3 woodcuts appearing in the text, 30 woodcut text illustrations and diagrams; light toning throughout, a few leaves shaved. Modern crushed green morocco paneled gilt, upper cover lettered Hocus Pocus (forming a cross and intersecting at the letter C), corner initials gilt-stamped clockwise on both covers top read "D E A N" (for Henry Dean), green marbled endpapers, the spine in 6 compartments gilt, edges gilt. 

Originally published in 1651 as A Rich Cabinet, with a Variety of Inventions.

REFERENCE:

ESTC T126913 (described as 18mo); Toole Stott 697 (as 12mo)