The black art fully exposed and laid bare ..
A cheap instructional manual of conjuring published by F. M. Reed in New York in 1875, explaining stage illusions and sleight-of-hand to amateur performers and showmen. The wood engravings are small, coarsely hatched cuts printed on tinted paper: hands palming coins, a knife through a wrist, a man levitating on a stool before a stage backdrop, and a robed magician raising a severed head between skulls \u2014 useful for occult and vaudeville imagery, gesture diagrams, and rough-line spot illustration.
