A Jacobean pamphlet that lays bare the conjurors’ secrets: how to make a ball swell in the hand or vanish into nothing, how to name a card shuffled into the pack, and how coins and knives are passed about. Rid also warns against cheating at cards and dice and mocks the beggarly arts of alchemy and fraudulent charms.
One of the earliest English books on magic tricks, kept in its original spelling, a delight for conjurors and historians. Download the free EPUB.