The Collection of Edwin A Dawes, Part I

L’Ancienne et la Nouvelle Collection des Tours D’Escamotage de Prestidigitation et D’Adresse. Paris: Le Bailly, (1856). Original pictorial wraps. Engraved frontispiece and several diagrams inserted throughout. 12mo. 100 pp. Front wrapper nearly detached (wrappers re-attached at an earlier date with binding scraps, p. 13 similarly reinforced), wrappers worn, soiled, chipped, torn, text with faint dampstaining at lower corner. Fair. Bookplates of Dawes and magic card trick creator Stanley Collins on the inner front wrapper, illegible inkstamp on half-title.