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ROBERT-HOUDIN, Jean-Eugène (1805 - 1871). Secrets of Stage Conjuring. Translated and Edited, with Notes by Professor Hoffmann. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1881. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Original full brick red cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt and black. Frontispiece and a few intertextual diagrams and illustrations. 8vo. 252, [2, ads] pp. Spine toned, some rubbing, minor soiling to boards, endleaves mildly soiled. Frontispiece a bit loose, gutter facing title-page starting. Skewed. Near fine. Dawes’ bookplate and advertising card of magician Richard Armour (“Conjurer Dick”) on front endleaves. Signed by Armour on title-page. The posthumous sequel to The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic.