Magic No Mystery

Conjuring tricks with cards, balls and dice, magic writing and performing animals, with many illustrations. Credited to the Prussian magician Wiljalba Frikell and edited by W. H. Cremer, it includes an early ball vase that magicians trace to the modern chop cup.

Wiljalba Frikell, 1876 · John Grant. Complete 342-page PDF. Free to download: check out at $0 and the file arrives by email and on your order page.

This classic is in the public domain. Scans come from library copies, so expect the odd stain or stamp of an old book.