The rappers, or, The mysteries, fallacies, and absurdities of spirit-rapping, table-tipping, and entrancement
An 1854 American book published in New York by H. Long & Brother, written under the pseudonym Searcher after truth, exposing spirit-rapping and table-tipping seances for a general readership. Its two wood-engraved plates show seated sitters and a gesturing man at a dim parlour gathering, with the caption 'Casting out the evil spirits' under one and 'Table tipping' under the other, offering a designer period dress, interior furnishings and dramatic crowd staging to borrow.
