Modern Magic - Couverture souple

Hoffman, Professor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1614279551 ISBN 13 : 9781614279556

Editeur : Martino Fine Books, 2016

Synopsis

2016 Reprint of 1920s Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Professor Hoffmann was the first in recorded history to attempt to record magic in an encyclopedic fashion beginning with his "Modern Magic." The material in this book [and others he wrote] recorded the state of the art of magic of the late 19th century. The first edition of 2,000 copies were sold out in seven weeks. Most magicians at the time were upset with the exposure. But over time it became the "bible" for many would be magicians, and remains so today. It was rated as one of the "Ten basic books for a working library of conjuring". Chapters include: - CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION - CHAPTER II GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT-OF-HAND APPLICABLE TO CARD TRICKS - CHAPTER III CARD TRICKS WITH ORDINARY CARDS, AND NOT REQUIRING SLEIGHT-OF-HAND - CHAPTER IV TRICKS INVOLVING SLEIGHT-OF-HAND, OR THE USE OF SPECIALLY PREPARED CARDS - CHAPTER V CARD TRICKS REQUIRING SPECIAL APPARATUS - CHAPTER VI PRINCIPLES OF sLEIGHT-OF-HAND MORE ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO COIN TRICKS - CHAPTER VII TRICKS WITH COIN WITHOUT APPARATUS - CHAPTER VIII TRICKS WITH COIN REQUIRING SPECIAL APPARATUS - CHAPTER IX TRICKS WITH WATCHES - CHAPTER X TRICKS WITH RINGS - CHAPTER XI TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS - CHAPTER XII TRICKS WITH DOMINOES AND DICE - CHAPTER XIII THE CUPS AND BALLS - CHAPTER XIV BALL TRICKS REQUIRING SPECIAL APPARATUS. - CHAPTER XV HAT TRICKS - CHAPTER XVI MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS - CHAPTER XVII STAGE TRICKS - CHAPTER XVIII CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS - APPENDIX o CHAPTER I Introduction o CHAPTER II KEMPELEN: Kempelen's Speaking Figure o CHAPTER III THEODIN o CHAPTER IV AUTOMATA: PSYCHO o CHAPTER V MARIONETTES o CHAPTER VI CLAIRVOYANCE o CHAPTER VII SPIRITUALISM o CHAPTER VIII PARLOR MAGIC

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

CONSIDERING the great antiquity and the unfading popularity of the magic art, it seems at first sight a matter of wonder that its literature should be so extremely scanty. In England, in particular, is this the case. Until within the last few years it would have been difficult to name a single book worth reading upon this subject, the whole literature of the art consisting of single chapters in books written for the amusement of youth (which were chiefly remarkable for the unanimity with which each copied, without acknowledgment, from its predecessors), and handbooks sold at the entertainments of various public performers, who took care not to reveal therein any trick which they deemed worthy of performance by themselves. Upon a little consideration, however, the scarcity of treatises on "White Magic" is easily accounted for. The more important secrets of the art have been known but to few, and those few have jealously guarded them, knowing that the more closely they concealed the clue to their mysteries, the more would those mysteries be valued. Indeed, the more noted conjurors of fifty years ago strove to keep the secret of their best tricks not only from the outside world, but from their confreres. At the present day the secrets of the art are not so well kept; and there is hardly a trick performed upon the stage which the amateur may not, at a sufficient expenditure of shillings or guineas, procure at the conjuring depots. There being, therefore, no longer the same strict secrecy, the literature of magic has improved a little, though it still leaves much to be desired. The general ambition of compilers seems to be to produce books containing nominally some fabulous number of tricks. In order to do this, they occupy two-thirds of their space with chemical and arithmetical recreations, and, as a necessary result, the portion devoted to conjuring tricks, properly so called, is treated so briefly and scantily as to be practically useless.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Martino Fine Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1614279551
• ISBN 13: 9781614279556
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 584
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne