Beschreibung:

a large coloured reproduction of a painting (signed and dated Roma, 1870?) depicting a Japanese conjuror giving a a private performance before a group of French courtiers in eighteenth-century dress, 608mm. by 906mm., New York, Morris & Bendien Inc., [c.1900]; another wood-engraved version of the same picture from a German periodical; two engraved plates illustrating Legerdemain, extracted from the Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1797, with accompanying text; a lithographed cartoon by John Doyle titled “The Thimble Rig,”, 1834; an engraved view of the Egyptian Hall after Thomas H. Shepherd, and a large wood-engraved illustration of “Psycho at Messrs. Maskelyne and Cooke’s Entertainment at the Egyptian Hall”, the last two coloured by hand, all framed and glazed; and 20 reproductions of early conjuring handbills, posters, paintings depicting conjurors, etc., three framed and glazed.