Book Author: Professor Hoffmann
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More Magic
SYNOPSIS: More Magic is Professor Hoffmann’s sequel to Modern Magic, expanding his course in Victorian conjuring with newer sleights, methods, apparatus, and complete routines. The book begins with additional advice on the magician’s wand, table, costume, servantes, and mechanical accessories before moving into a particularly extensive study of card magic. Its card chapters cover improved passes, forces,…
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Modern Magic
SYNOPSIS: Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring is Professor Hoffmann’s foundational instructional work on nineteenth-century magic. Designed as a progressive course, it begins with the magician’s wand, table, costume, secret pockets, and basic principles of deception before teaching sleight of hand and complete routines with cards, coins, watches, rings, handkerchiefs, dice, cups…
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Latest Magic
SYNOPSIS: Latest Magic: Being Original Conjuring Tricks is Professor Hoffmann’s final major collection of practical magic. Unlike his earlier books, which often documented established material, Hoffmann presents this volume as a collection of effects and apparatus largely of his own invention. The book emphasizes ingenious mechanical principles, handmade props, concealed devices, and carefully arranged routines suited…
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Later Magic
SYNOPSIS: Later Magic is the third major instructional work in Professor Hoffmann’s classic series of Victorian conjuring books. It expands beyond sleight of hand into the practical machinery, clothing, hidden assistants, tables, servantes, pulls, clips, traps, changing devices, and other apparatus used by professional magicians of the period. The book contains extensive sections on the conjurer’s…
