A History of the Art of Conjuring by Kurt Volkmann
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Almost a century in the making: the most thorough history of conjuring ever written, now in English for the first time.
Kurt Volkmann's celebrated German series on the history of magic has been fully translated by Lori Pieper and Maxwell Pritchard and published by the Conjuring Arts Research Center as a two-volume luxury set.
Volume One traces performance magic from antiquity through the Middle Ages, the 16th to 19th centuries and the Romantic era, with in-depth studies of Bosco, Robert-Houdin, Hofzinser, Anderson, Herrmann, Maskelyne, Buatier and more.
Volume Two looks country by country at the performers and texts of France, England, Germany, Austria, Russia, Egypt, Persia and many others, with eleven appendices of new findings, a vast bibliography and a full index.
"Amazing! What an accomplishment for both Volkmann and Conjuring Arts!" - David Copperfield
Details
- Two hardcover volumes, 1,260 pages in total
- 432 colour illustrations with full endnotes
- Archival paper, foil-stamped cloth binding and sewn signatures
- Housed in a luxury slipcase
- Strictly limited to 1,000 numbered sets
