Breslaw's last legacy; or, Magical companion
containing all that is curious, pleasing, entertaining, and surprising. Selected from the most celebrated masters of deception. Including the various exhibitions of those wonderful artists, Breslaw, Sieur, [sic] Comus, Jonas, &c. The whole forming a book of real knowledge in the art of conjuration. With a frontispiece, representing Mr. Breslaw exhibiting before company..
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"Breslaw, who died in 1803, may have compiled the eighteenth-century editions ... It is clear, however, that he was not responsible for the many small pamphlets of the same title published in the early nineteenth century."--Hall, Trevor. Old conjuring books [1972], p. 155.
Date of publication taken from Trevor Hall's Supplementary checklist of books on conjuring in English. Toole-Stott gives ca. 1809.
Signatures: B-D⁶.
Hall, Trevor. Bibl. of books on conjuring in English, 39
Hall, Trevor. Supplementary checklist of books on conjuring in English, 39
Toole-Stott, R. Conjuring, 127
Clarke, Sidney W. and Blind, Adolphe. Bibl. of conjuring, p. 14
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