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![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/tn/00-front-cover-q85-338x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
Conjuring Tricks, author and exact date unknown. I was seven years old when we moved house into an old and crumbling vicarage. I found a set of magic tricks in a box in the attic. Most of the tricks are long-since lost or broken since I was only a small boy at the time, but I still have the instruction book. I have scanned every page.
Title: Conjuring Tricks
Date: 1890
Total items: 12
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Inside cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/01-inside-cover-q75-135x200.jpg "[picture: Inside cover]")
Victorian paper, now rather brittle. [$]
![[picture: Page 2: The Marvelous Pedestal and The Wonderful Egg Trick.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/03-the-marvellous-pedestal-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Page 2: The Marvelous Pedestal and The Wonderful Egg Trick.]")
Page 2: The Marvelous Pedestal and The Wonderful Egg Trick.
The wonderful egg coud be opened in two places; the “egg” was of wood, and hollow, so that you could open the container below it. [$]
![[picture: Back cover.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/11-back-cover-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Back cover.]")
Grey-green paper, slightly sturdier than the pages. [$]
![[picture: Page 4: The Changing Card and The Heart Trick.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/05-the-changing-card-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Page 4: The Changing Card and The Heart Trick.]")
Page 4: The Changing Card and The Heart Trick.
I don’t remember the Changing Card; I think I saw the Heart Trick and didn’t understand it at all. [$]
![[picture: Page 5: The Wonderful Box Trick]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Anonymous-MagicTricks/wm/big/07-the-wonderful-box-trick-q85-135x200.jpg "[picture: Page 5: The Wonderful Box Trick]")
Page 5: The Wonderful Box Trick
Again there is an inner compartment, in this case one that slides so it can be under one or other door (or partway inbetween if you didn’t practise enough). [more...] [$]
Conjuring Tricks, author and exact date unknown. I was seven years old when we moved house into an old and crumbling vicarage. I found a set of magic tricks in a box in the attic. Most of the tricks are long-since lost or broken since I was only a small boy at the time, but I still have the instruction book. I have scanned every page.
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