How to mesmerise : a manual of instruction in the history, mysteries, modes of procedure, and arts of mesmerism, or, animal magnetism, hypnotism, clairvoyance, thought reading, and mesmeric entertainments / by James Coates.
James Coates, a Glasgow-linked writer on mesmerism, produced this London manual around 1890 for general readers interested in hypnotism and animal magnetism. Its four line engravings show a bearded operator and a seated subject in simple parlour settings, with the drawings' hatched shading and plain backgrounds offering a designer a clear model for period instructional illustration.
