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Table Moving, Its Causes and Phenomena: With Directions How to Experiment. [London]: Published by John Wesley, ca. 1860. Pictorial wrappers, the upper bearing a wood-engraved image of sitters at a séance. One sheet of plates, woodcuts in text. 8vo. Wrappers chipped, general wear, spine reinforced with tissue. Rare. Published as the spiritualism movement began to grip the public’s imagination in England, this tract gives voice to the real possibility that a “newly developed force” (rather than a fraudulent medium or wily con man) could tip and levitate tables and cause other miraculous animations to take place apparently unaided by human hands.