The Magician's Own Book

The great Victorian handbook of parlour magic, with over 500 woodcuts. Card deceptions, sleights, tricks with numbers, chemical and mechanical experiments and puzzles, plus the best-known tricks of the performers of its day. This scan is the New York edition of 1862.

George Arnold, 1857 · Dick & Fitzgerald. Complete 396-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.