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Title: Hocus Pocus Junior
Description: This is the earliest illustrated English book devoted to conjuring, covering the usual tricks with cups and balls, coins, cards and confederates. The man behind the book may have been William Vincent, licensed under King James I to ‘exercise the art of Legerdemaine’. He became known as ‘the King’s most excellent Hocus Pocus.’
Creator: [unknown]
Date: 1654
Identifier: [H.P.L.] Hocus (RBC)
Source: https://search.libraries.london.ac.uk/permalink/44SHL_INST/1j7aip0/alma991003077169709266
Collection: Magic