Confidences et révélations : comment on devient sorcier
A French illustrated memoir by the conjuror Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, published in Paris in 1868 by A. Delahays, with its wood-engraved pictures showing his stage and parlour tricks for a general readership. The pictures show a formally dressed magician in a candlelit salon with a table of props, an audience seated in a stage-side row, and a boy assistant, drawn in crisp black line with dense hatching that a designer could borrow for period engraving effects.
