INGLEBY'S WHOLE ART OF LEGERDEMAIN, CONTAING ALL THE TRICKS AND DECEPIONS (Never before published) as performed by the Emperor of Conjurors, AT THE MINOR THEATRE, WITH COPIUS EXPLANATIONS. by INGLEBY, thomas.: - 1815

London, T. Hughes, Ludgate-Street, and C. Chaple, Pall-Mall, circa 1815.. Also, several new and astonishing, Philosophical and Mathematical Experiments, With Preliminary Observations, Including Directions for practising the SLIGHT OF HAND. circa 1815. David Price's copy with small book-plate at bottom of first pastedown. Small 8vo bound in sixes, approximately 165 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, WITH THE ORIGINAL HAND COLOURED FRONTISPIECE DATED 1815, pages, [i v], vi xxiv, [1], 2 106, including half-title but lacks the last blank leaf, rebound in black cloth, new endpapers, gilt lettering to spine and gilt name on upper cover of David Price, pages untrimmed. Pale brown offset to title page from frontispiece, pale address stamp to blank side of half-title and a few ink stamp numbers to lower margin of final page, otherwise a very good clean copy. David Price probably the author of: A Pictorial History of Conjurers in the Theater. See: Toole Stott, A Bibliography of English Conjuring, page 142, No. 410; Trevor Hall, A Bibliography of Books on Conjuring in English, page 59, No, 189; Clarke and Blind The Bibliography of Conjuring, page 41; Finlay Collection, Part 1, page 75, No. 358; Edgar Heyl, A Contribution to Conjuring, page 34 No. 182; Harry Price Short-Title Catalogue to Psychical Research, Volume 1, page 232. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.