The whole art of legerdemain, or, Hocus pocus laid open and explained by those renowned masters Sena Sama, Hamed Ben-Ali, and all the celebrated and mysterious professors in the art of natural magic : with full instructions how to perform the various tricks on cards, dice, birds, eggs, rings, &c. as practised before their sublime majesties, the Emperor and Empress of China, the crowned heads of Europe, and the president and people of the United States
A conjuring manual published in Baltimore by C.V. Nickerson in 1830, attributed to Henry Dean, teaching general readers card, dice, bird, egg and ring tricks. The hand-coloured plate shows a magician performing before a seated audience in period dress, with a cloth-draped stage edge and a table of props, and a designer could take its crisp, dense line work and the staging of a performer addressing a crowd.
