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(Hocus Pocus)

Richard Neve. Hocus Pocus: or the Cabinet of Legerdemain Curiosities Broke Open. London: Printed for H. Tracy, 1721

12mo (149 x 89 mm). Woodcut frontispiece, several woodcut text illustrations and diagrams, a stamp-size cut of a covered tankard laid down on C4v, advertisement on G12v; frontispiece and leaves 6–7 in quires C and E–G guarded, fore-edge of C5 remargined, upper right corners of G11–12 remargined slightly affecting text. Modern brown crushed morocco gilt-ruled turn-ins with fleur-de-lys cornerpieces, spine in 6 compartments decorated and lettered gilt.

"The second edition." A reissue of the 1721 edition of The Merry Companion with a new title-page. A11r has the heading The Merry Companion: or Delights for the Ingenious (Toole Stott).

REFERENCE:

ESTC T190366; Toole Stott 501 

PROVENANCE:

Abram Clay (contemporary ownership inscription on title-page)