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

Transcriber notes:

p. [vi]. 'Cumbustion without Flame,' changed 'Cumbustion' to 'Combustion'.
P. [18]. 'diaphonous' changed to 'diaphanous' as in 'diaphanous bodies'.
P. [29]. 'here it' changed to 'here is'.
P. [32]. 'the stall' changed to 'the stalk.'.
P. [38]. 'the performed', changed 'performed' to 'performer'.
P. [61]. 'Several t icks', should read 'Several tricks', fixed.
P. [74]. 'convinience' changed to 'convenience'.
P. [76]. 'supicion' changed to 'suspicion'.
P. [93]. 'the smooth', changed 'the' to 'them'.
P. [94]. 'sacer' changed to 'saucer'.
P. [101]. 'appearence' changed to 'appearance'.
P. [103]. 'lines will will', changed to 'lines will'.
P. [105]. 'salt of strontian', changed 'strontian' to 'strontium'.
P. [105]. 'will loose', changed 'loose' to 'lose'.
P. [122]. 'seperated' changed to 'separated'.
P. [130]. 'ja' changed to 'jar'.
P. [141]. 'the crd, aon' changed to 'the crd, on'.
P. [142]. 'thst the' changed to 'that the'.
P. [160]. 'these are are' changed to 'these are'.
P. [167]. 'sprinke some powdered camphor', changed 'sprinke' to sprinkle'.
P. [169]. 'preduce similar effects', changed 'preduce' to 'produce'.
P. [175]. Fig. 2 'REFRACTING STERESCOPE' changed to 'REFRACTING STEREOSCOPE'.
P. [192]. 'blow throw the quill' changed 'throw' to 'through'.
P. [195]. 'calcuated' changed to 'calculated'.
P. [196]. 'abou' chanaged to 'about'.
P. [198]. 'phemomena of nature.', changed 'phemomena' to 'phenomena'.
P. [201]. 'perpindicular' changed to 'perpendicular'.
P. [210]. 'half of tha triple', changed 'tha' to 'that'.
P. [214]. 'a little scrunity' changed 'scrunity' to 'scrutiny'.
P. [216]. 'in successsion' changed to 'in succession'.
P. [225]. 'proceded' changed to 'proceeded'.
P. [253]. Added two missing em dashes to answers.
P. [254]. 'put suppose the', changed 'put' to 'but'.
P. [255]. 'put prior', changed 'put' to 'but'.
P. [284]. 'when you clearl', changed 'clearl' to 'clearly'.
P. [288]. '[48]. A MAZE OR LABRYINTH.'; changed 'LABRYINTH' to 'LABYRINTH'.
P. [303]. 'line us the basis', changed 'us' to 'as'.
P. [305]. 'will readly', changed 'readly' to 'readily'.
P. [306]. 'the forms therto)', changed 'therto' to 'thereto'.
P. [307]. 'Fig 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,', changed 'Fig' to 'Figs.'
P. [307]. 'With this uplex', changed 'uplex' to 'duplex'.
P. [307]. 'several direetions', changed 'direetions' to 'directions'.
P. [316]. 'illustrations o', changed 'o' to 'of'.
P. [317]. 'In desigining' changed 'desigining' to 'designing'.
P. [320]. 'first (Fig.', changed to 'first (Fig. 54)'.
P. [349]. 'and unlimited' changed to 'an unlimited'.
P. [351]. 'the flottom' changed to 'the bottom'.
P. [353]. 'beng reflected' changed to 'being reflected'.
P. [353]. 'mithltiplied' changed to 'multiplied'.
Add: Inquire Within... 'populur' changed to 'popular'. Changed 'fradulent' to 'fraudulent'.
Add: 'The Reason Why:' changed 'lightining' to 'lightning'.
Add: 'Live and Learn;' changed 'recommonded' to 'recommend'.
Add: 'Amusements of Home,' changed 'pastime' to 'pastimes'. Add: 'PARLOR THEATRICALS' changed 'everthing' to 'everything'.
Add: 'Chesterfield's Art of Letter-writing' changed 'Busines' to 'Business'.
Fixed various punctuation.