EVERY MAN A MAGrlCIAN. 



THE MAGICIAN'S OWN BOOK; 



OR, 



lri 0f 



Being a Complete Hand-Book of Parlor Magic, containing over One Thousand 



Optical, Chemical, Mechanical, Magnetical, and Magical Experiments, 



Amusing Transmutations, Astonishing Sleights and Subtleties, Cele- 



brated Card Deceptions, Ingenious Tricks with Numbers, Curious 



and Entertaining Puzzles Together with all the most Noted 



Tricks of Modern Performers. The whole Illustrated with 



GOO "WOOD CTJTS, 



And intended as a source of amusement for 

 ONE THOUSAND AND ONE EVENINGS. 



12mo., cloth, 400 pages ; gilt side and back stamp. Price, ONE DOLLAR, sent 

 free of postage. 



Here is a book for the long winter evenings, and one that will make all 

 merry and happy. It contains over a THOUSAND TRICKS, of every descrip- 

 tion, and they are all explained so clear and explicitly that any person can 

 comprehend and perform them with ease. 1 1 also contains numerous CURIOUS 

 PUZZLES, with patterns showing how they are done, any one of which will 

 afford amusement enough for a whole evening. There is, aiso, the best collec- 

 tion of wonderful CARD DECEPTIONS ever yet published, any one of which 

 is worth more than double the price of the book. This work also contains a 

 splendid collection of CURIOUS TRICKS WITH NUMBERS, and embraces 

 several hundred tricks never before in piint. It is no catchpenny affair, but a 

 standard work, containing every variety of Experiment in Conjuring, Cards, 

 Legerdemain, Transmutations, the Magic of Chemistry, the Magic of Me- 

 chanics, the Magic of Pneumatics, the Magic of Numbers, the Magic of Art, 

 the Magic of Strength, the Magic of Magnetism, the Magic of Secret Writing, 

 Miscellaneous Curious Tricks and Fancies, &c. This book is beautifully bound 

 in One cloth, with gilt side and back stamp, and is illustrated with 



OVER 500 WOOD ENGRAVINGS, 



Besides a Tinted Title Page and Frontispiece. Price, ONE DOLLAR, and 



sent to any address, free of postage. 



Send cash orders to 



DICK & FITZGERALD, 



INo. 18 Ann Street, New York. 



