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[MASKELYNE]. Maxim Versus Maskelyne. [London, 1910]. Blue pictorial wraps, the upper picturing the authors of the contents, and the lower bearing the image of St. George and the Dragon as it appeared on the cover of programs for St. George’s hall. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. 32pp. Foxed, spine split with covers barely holding, else good. A collection of stories reprinted from The Strand which expose the tricks of the Davenport Brothers and their imitators, written by both Hiram Maxim and John Nevil Maskelyne. Maskelyne used controversies of this nature to drum up publicity and ticket sales at St. George’s Hall and, earlier, Egyptian Hall.