Conjuring.- Deception.- At the Great Room, Chapel Court, Bartholomew-Lane...an Undeceiving Exhibition, With Dissertations on Deception; Discovering the Modes of Deceiving, practiced by Jugglers, Slight-of-hand-men...By Mr. John Mexville..., printed broadside, shaved at foot with loss of imprint, some light surface soiling, laid down on paper, 180 x 255mm., 3rd July 1789.
⁂ Mexville is recorded in Frost's Lives of the Conjurors (1876) under 'Melville, the revealer of conjurors' secrets'; "Whether his elucidations were genuine or satisfactory to his audiences, contemporary records do not inform us" (p.154). ESTC records a similar example to this in the Bodleian.
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