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Bland’s Parlour Magician; A Useful Book for the Amateur

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Bland’s Parlour Magician; A Useful Book for the Amateur

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Bland’s Parlour Magician; A Useful Book for the Amateur Conjurer. London: J. Bland, ca. 1876. A plagiarism of Charles DeVere’s “Book of Magic” (1876). Modern buckram. Mild foxing throughout, writing and stamping on title page and flyleaf; good.