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STYGLE, Dupree. We’re All Going by Steam … The Wizard of the East … Legerdemain! Brighton: Philipps and Co., Printers, ca. 1840. Stygle and his eight-year-old son appear at the Exhibition Rooms, Brighton, with a program of classic conjuring feats, including Second Sight, “Hydraulics Extraordinary,” the creation of “smoking hot dumplins” in a borrowed hat, and Ventriloquism. The boy presents eighteen poses plastiques or living pictures. With a large blocky woodcut of a locomotive at the top, the text bounded by a triple rule border. 29 ¾ x 9 ¾”. Chips, folds, and losses; reinforced with tissue on verso.