The Ricky Jay Collection

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(Hocus Pocus) | "Legerdemain in Perfection"

Auction Closed

October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

(Hocus Pocus)

Henry Dean. Hocus Pocus; or the Whole Art of Legerdemain. Glasgow: Printed and Sold by J. & M. Robertson, 1783


12mo (152 x 89 mm). Woodcut frontispiece, numerous woodcut illustrations; browned and stained throughout. Contemporary calf; extremities worn, minor losses to spine ends, upper joint cracked but holding, portion of rear free endpaper torn away.


Tenth edition thus.


REFERENCE:

ESTC T138104; Toole Stott 216


PROVENANCE:

Elijah Smith (inscriptions on free endpapers, one dated 179--) — [Patsy] Ann Smith (inscription on rear free endpaper)