Sold for:
$800
$800
Hoffmann, Professor (Angelo J. Lewis). Modern Magic. London: George Routledge, (1876). First Edition, First State. Pictorial blue cloth, stamped in black and gold. Tan endsheets; Davenport bookplate on pastedown, two ownership signatures on flyleaf. Tissue-guarded frontispiece of Sphinx illusion. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth lightly rubbed and scuffed, title and frontis. browned in one corner, other minor imperfections. Toole Stott 386. As Toole Stott notes, first editions are identified by a Routledge monogram on the title page. First states of the first edition show the conjurer with a black hat and gold cone on front cover.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
