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Parlour magic (1838)

Perkins, Henry, 1803-1889, publisher, Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, printer, McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia : H. Perkins, 134 Chestnut Street · leaf 10

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To furnish the ingenious youth with the means ofrelieving the tediousness of a long winters or a wetsummers evening, — to enable him to provide for aparty of juvenile friends, instructive as well as re-creative entertainment, without having recourse toany of the vulgar modes of killing time, — to…

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