This book was published in 1888 to cash in on the success of Hoffmann's Modern Magic. Illustrated throughout, it is an interesting and scarce example of a Hoffmann imitation.
 
Condition: Good/fair, some wear and marking to spine and covers, endpapers and page edges browned, a few pencil additions. 
 
Binding: Hardback
Year:  1888
Publisher: L. Upcott Gill
Pages: 403 (numbered in two sections)
Dimensions (to nearest cm): 19 X 14cm