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The Whole Art of Conjuring, or Hocus Pocus. Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore: Fisher & Brother, ca. 1850. Pictorial boards (bearing the title Complete Book of Magic) printed in color. Engraved title picturing the decapitation trick. Illustrations. 12mo. Spine mostly perished and binding just holding and well worn. Toole Stott 705. According to Milbourne Christopher, writing in The Magic Cauldron in December, 1968, this work is a combination of Hocus Pocus; or, the Whole Art of Conjuring Made Easy for Young Persons, and The Whole Art of Legerdemain, or Hocus Pocus Laid Open and Explained by those Renowned Masters Sena Sama, etc.