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Hocus Pocus Junior

The Anatomy of Legerdemain. [London]: Printed for J. Deacon at the Sign of the Rainbow, a little above St. Andrews Church in Holborn, 1683

4to (172 x 127 mm). Woodcut emblem on title-page, numerous woodcut text illustrations, full-page woodcut on terminal leaf H4v; washed and pressed with residual browning and soiling throughout, small loss to lower inside corner of H4 not affecting woodcut, imprint, signatures and catchwords cropped. Half biscuit calf over old Dutch combed marbled boards, edges tinted red, the spine in 5 compartments with raised bands, red morocco spine label; boards a trifle rubbed.

The Macclesfield copy. Toole Stott says the tenth edition is a reissue of the ninth edition of 1682 with a slightly different title-page. A popular work, numerous editions were issued in the seventeenth century.

REFERENCE:

ESTC R236342; R218016 (listing only 3 copies in U.K. libraries); Exemplars, p. 83; Toole Stott 365; Wing H2282AB

PROVENANCE:

The Earls of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle (armorial bookplate dated 1860)