Magic; stage illusions and scientific diversions, including trick photography
A compendium of stage conjuring, optical tricks and trick photography compiled by Albert A. Hopkins with Henry Ridgely Evans, published in London by Low in 1897 for magicians, showmen and amateur experimenters. Wood engravings cut away theatre stages to show traps, mirrors, wires and lamp rigs, alongside levitations, decapitations, spirit cabinets and projection diagrams usable as apparatus schematics or dark-stage figure scenes.
