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(Hocus Pocus)

Henry Dean. The Whole Art of Legerdemain, or, Hocus Pocus in Perfection … The Eight [sic] Edition. Glasgow: R. & T. Duncan, 1773

12mo (146 x 95 mm). Woodcut frontispiece, approximately 36 woodcut text illustrations; most leaves remargined, extensively so in quires A with minor losses to frontispiece and I–K costing text on I5r and catchword on K5r. Half calf to style over green marbled boards, smooth spine ruled gilt, reddish brown lettering-piece.

A scarce edition. Not in ESTC. Both Worldcat and Toole Stott locate a single copy in the McManus-Young Collection at the Library of Congress. No copies recorded as being sold at auction in RBH and ABPC.

REFERENCE:

Exemplars, p. 84; Toole Stott 211; not in ESTC