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HOFFMANN, Professor (Angelo Lewis, 1839–1919). Conjurer Dick. London: Frederick Warne, [1886]. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Frontispiece behind tissue. Illustrated. 8vo. Dawes bookplate. Binding quite worn with hinges cracked and corners bumped. Fair condition. DAVID DEVANT'S COPY, with a penciled notation to flyleaf verso: “This was David Devant's copy & carried his bookplate …. It was subsequently in the Magic Circle Library & purchased from them in 1964 as withdrawn from circulation." A Devant bookplate has been laid in, and the Magic Circle's library stamp appears on the title page.