ANDERSON, John Henry (1814-1874). The Great Wizard of

ANDERSON, John Henry (1814-1874). The Great Wizard of the North’s Hand Book of Natural Magic. New York: Stearns and Company, [1861]. 12mo. Eighty-fifth edition. Publisher’s pictorial green wraps (staining, chipping along extremities, tears, foxing). Publisher identified as P.J. Cozan’s on wrappers. Toole Stott 29. Provenance: Milbourne Christopher (sticker). Scarce. – [Together with]: The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic. The Great Wizard of the North at His “Temple of Magic”. Frontispiece. Disbound (lacking wrappers). John Henry Anderson is credited with having been one of the first magicians to utilize advertising to promote his performances, as well as the first magician to pull a rabbit out of a top hat.