La magie blanche dévoilée, ou, Explication des tours surprenans qui font depuis peu l'admiration de la capitale & de la province : avec des réflexions sur la baguette divinatoire, les automates joeurs d'échecs, &c. &c.
Henri Decremps's La magie blanche dévoilée, published in Paris and Liège in 1792, explains the conjuring tricks, divining rods and chess-playing automata then amazing French audiences, written for curious lay readers rather than performers. Numbered copperplate figures set staged illusions—robed figures floating on clouds above a crowd of turbaned spectators—over ruled boxes of explanatory French text, useful for apparatus diagrams and captioned-plate layouts.
