The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring / Being a complete hand-book of parlor magic, and containing over one thousand optical, chemical, mechanical, magnetical, and magical experiments, amusing transmutations, astonishing sleights and subtleties, celebrated card deceptions, ingenious tricks with numbers, curious and entertaining puzzles, together with all the most noted tricks of modern performers.

by George Arnold; Frank Cahill

The Harp of a Thousand Strings

OR, LAUGHTER FOR A LIFETIME.

And peculiarly prepared to produce prolific PEALS OF LAUGHTER. The very quintessence of HUMAN WIT, WAGGERY and WISDOM.

400 Pages of the most Mirth-Provoking Literature ever printed.

It contains more than a Million Laughs, and is Illustrated with 200 Comic Cuts.

The pictures are all original, designed by some of our best artists (including Darley), and the collection of droll conceits and queer stories is unsurpassed, having been several years in preparation.

Large 12 mo, nearly 400 pages, Illustrated with 200 Comic Engravings, and bound in fine Cloth, with gilt side and back stamp.

PRICE ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.

THE BOOK OF
One Thousand Comical Stories

Or, ENDLESS REPAST OF FUN.

A rich Banquet for Every Day in the Year, with several courses and a dessert.

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BILL OF FARE: Comprising Tales of Humor, Laughable Anecdotes, Irresistible Drolleries, Jovial Jokes, Comical Conceits, Puns and Pickings, Quibbles and Queries, Bon Mots and Broadgrins, Oddities, Epigrams, &c., &c. Merry Songs for Merry Moments; Conundrums for the Million; an inexhaustible store of Nuts to Crack, and Sports and Pastimes for all Seasons—forming a Welcome Guest for Spring, a Cheerful Friend for Summer, a Jovial Host for Autumn, a Pleasant Companion for Winter, and a varied Feast of Mirth for Everybody's Enjoyment.

Appropriately Illustrated with 300 Comic Engravings. By the author of "Mrs. Partington's Carpet Bag of Fun."

Large 12 mo. Cloth. Price One Dollar.