Witchcraft: or The art of fortune-telling unveiled: from the low ambition of the celebrated Mary Pitcher, to the more elevated, but equally vague pretensions of the injudicious astrologer.
An exposé of fortune-telling and conjuring tricks written and self-published by William Frederick Pinchbeck in Boston in 1805, addressed to American readers curious about how itinerant seers and showmen worked their effects. The seven small woodcuts are crude and heavily hatched: a barefoot rope-walker balancing a spinning plate on a stick, a curtained table with lettered parts hiding its mechanism, a giant figure working two marionettes, and a parachute canopy — useful as coarse-line diagram vignettes, letter-keyed apparatus cutaways, and showman silhouettes.
