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Title
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The Conjurer Unmasked
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Description
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This book was first published in French in 1784 as La Magic Blanche Dévoilée. Decremps’s aim was to expose what he saw as the fraud of performers who profited from their audience’s ignorance rather than to train his readers in performing tricks themselves. This frontispiece depicts a version ‘The card nailed to the wall with a pistol shot’ which involves the conjuror firing a nail at a pack of cards that have been thrown into the air and skewering the card selected by the audience.
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Creator
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Philip Breslaw
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Date
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1792
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Identifier
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[H.P.L.] Breslaw (RBC)
Magic
