Magic book (textbook)

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A magic book is a textbook on the art of magic that conveys its technical and psychological aspects and possibly also describes the development and history of the art of magic.

Continued magic, Johann Samuel Halle, 1789

history

The book Hocus Pocus Junior , published in London in 1634, is considered to be the first magic book that was intended to describe magic tricks for self-demonstration . For the first time it brought an illustrated text in English that dealt with the description of magic tricks. The book thus influenced the entire later authorship of other magic books. In the following 60 years alone, no fewer than 13 issues appeared.
However, magic tricks were described in the book The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot , published in 1584, but these were not published as instructions but as explanations.

A German translation by Hocus Pocus Junior appeared in 1667 with the addition: Or the art of hand-held games, clearly and diligently described, also explained with figures.

The perfect magician and pocket player, Prof. W. Horstmann, around 1900
The Magician′s Own Book by Wiljalba Frikell , 1877 ( online )

General

The magic book genre has been firmly established since the 19th century. While magic books were initially published by commercial publishers, with the specialization of magic as an artistic form of representation, a separate specialist book scene increasingly developed, in which authors often publish their books in small editions and only make them accessible to specialist colleagues.

Presentation

The presentation of the copies, which are only intended for a small group, is very different. Often, however, they are just as professionally designed and produced as commercial books.

Content

Magic books deal with the entire spectrum of the art of magic, including the areas

  • theory
  • manual
  • history
    • biography
    • Autobiography

subjects

  • General magic tricks
  • Card magic tricks
  • Big illusions
  • Misdirection
  • Acting
  • Mental Magic
  • history

Magic book publishers (selection)

Germany
England
  • Harry Stanley, London
  • George Johnson, London
  • Martin Breese, London
  • Davenport, London
United States
  • Jeff Busby, Wallace, Idaho
  • Richard Kaufman
  • Magic Inc. Chicago
  • Abbott's Magic, Colon, Michigan
  • L&L Publishing Co., Tahoma
  • Hermetic Press, Inc., Seattle

See also

literature

  • Paul Fleming: Paul Fleming Book Reviews. Vol. I, Fleming Book, New Jersey 1944, OCLC 751133529 .
  • Paul Fleming: Paul Fleming Book Reviews. Vol. II, Fleming Book, New Jersey 1946, OCLC 352935263 .
  • JB Findlay: Scottish Conjuring Bibliography. Self-published, Shanklin 1951, OCLC 181805284 .
  • Kurt Volkmann, Louis Tummers: Bibliographie de la Prestidigitation. Part 1, self-published, Brussels 1952, OCLC 163131806 .
  • Jan Brabec, Markschiess-van Trix: Artistry. German State Library, Berlin 1968, DNB 456171096 .
  • Trevor H. Hall: Old Conjuring Books. Duckworth, London 1972, ISBN 0-7156-0678-6 .
  • Raymond Toole Stott: Bibliography of English Conjuring. Volume 1: 1581-1876. Harpur & Sons of Derby, Derby 1976, OCLC 768419647 .
  • Robert Gill: Magic As A Performing Art. A Bibliography of Conjuring. Bowker, London / New York 1976, ISBN 0-85935-038-X .
  • Raymond Toole Stott: Bibliography of English Conjuring. Volume 2: 1569-1876. Harpur & Sons of Derby, Derby 1978, OCLC 768430921 .
  • Thomas Fischer: Bibliography of German-language magic literature. Self-published, Gomaringen 1979, OCLC 311111164 .
  • Peter Hackhofer: Bibliography of German-language magic literature. Self-published, St. Wendel 1983, DNB 890604509 .
  • Ralf Wichmann (Braco): Braco's bibliography on the subject of floating. Self-published, 1984.
  • Volker Huber: Horster bibliography of magic books. Edition Huber, Offenbach am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-921785-92-8 .

credentials

  1. ↑ Magic Book Magic. Exhibition catalog. Galerie-W, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-046585-7 .
  2. ↑ Vanessa Hirsch, Peter Rawert: Enchanted! From secret sciences and magical spectacles. Exhibition catalog Altonaer Museum. Magische Welt publishing house, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-927637-53-5 .
  3. ^ Peter Hackhofer: Hokus Pokus Fidibus. Catalog. Cultural Office d. City of Bergisch Gladbach, 1981, DNB 880754036 .