Bits of patter
Bits of Patter is a 1915 magician's handbook of performance patter and tricks, published in Minneapolis by the Eagle Magic Company and drawn from the Harry Houdini Collection at the Library of Congress. The four pictures show a conjurer in evening dress with a top hat and a severed-looking head, a stage with jars and vases, a man lifting a weight on a rope, and a wire-framed umbrella with hanging props, all in plain crosshatched black-line wood engraving that a designer could borrow for vintage magic posters or stage-show graphics.
