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- Herausgeber: Orpheus Editions
- Kategorie: Lebensstil
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020
This annotated and illustrated edition contains the following additions to the original book :
- Annotations detailing the life and work of Ellis Stanyon
- Complementary illustrations depicting the magician and his journals of Magic which inspired this book.
- Bibliography of the author.
Do you love magic tricks ?
This book, written by a magician who was famous in the beginning of the 20th century, will teach you how to execute perfect magic tricks. You will learn how to perform tricks with coins, handkerchiefs, balls, hats, and more. You'll be able to perform after-dinner tricks, stage tricks, and even to perform tricks based on shadow figures.
The explanations are accompanied by clear illustrations destined to help you accomplish yourself as a magician and master of sleight of hand.
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Magic
- Annotated Edition -
In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions, as well as many new ones
by Ellis Stanyon
Copyrights
Philadelphia Originally published by The Penn Publishing Company 1910
Copyright 1901 by The Penn Publishing Company
This version : Copyright 2020 by Orpheus Editions
Contents
CHAP. PAGE I. INTRODUCTION 11 II. PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT OF HAND APPLICABLE TO SMALL OBJECTS 26 III. TRICKS WITH COINS 33 IV. TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS 57 V. TRICKS WITH BALLS 93 VI. HAT TRICKS 114 VII. ANTI-SPIRITUALISTIC TRICKS 127 VIII. AFTER DINNER TRICKS 142 IX. MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS 159 X. STAGE TRICKS 209 XI. SHADOWGRAPHY 228
Annotations
William Ellis Stanyon, born on 8 January 1870 in the village of Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, England, was a professional magician in London. He also was a magic dealer.
Professionally known as Professor Ellis Stanyon, he was one of the children of William John Stanyon, a wood sawyer.
Stanyon married to Catherine Fairs on the fifth of november 1893 at the Trinity Church, in Marylebone, London. From this union were born five children.
After seeing a magic show at school, Stanyon became particularly interested in magic.
Photo : Hellis and Sons, Regent Street, London, probably 1895
In 1899, the young man started a first periodical, called "Stanyon's Serials".
Just a year later, in 1900, he edited and published a journal of his own, known as "Magic". The aim of this publication was to "popularize the Art of Sleight of Hand". It ran at eight pages per issue. The contents of these journals were tricks, news, reviews, and gossip. It included advertisements too.
A method of escape from packed boxes, published in his journal, caused some stir at the time. Indeed, Harry Houdini accused the magician of having posted a bounty of several pounds for his secrets, even if the methods used by Stanyon were, according to his rival magician, nothing more than "puny attempts at duplication".
Photo : Hellis and Sons, Regent Street, London, probably 1895
Nevertheless, Stanyon is considered by magic historians to be one of the most prolific writers on magic tricks in the world, and his books were particularly desired by amateurs and magic enthusiasts.
The Magic journal ran a long time, counting 177 issues and totalling more than 1400 pages. During World War I, Stanyon put the publication to a break, and resumed publishing after the end of the war. In June 1920, he published the final issue of "Magic".
Photo : Hellis and Sons, Regent Street, London, probably 1895
Stanyon died in 1951, at the age of 81 years old. One his sons, Cyril Stanyon, took over the legacy of his father and launched himself in magic too.
Reproductions of original Magic Magazines.
Bibliography
Below is a listing of Stanyons large bibliography, of which the present book is just a part.
Conjuring for Amateurs (1897)
Conjuring with Cards (1898)
Stanyon's Serial Lessons in Conjuring (1899-1910, 21-part series. Reprinted in one volume by Kaufman and Greenberg (1996).)
New Coin Tricks, 1st Series (1899)
A Bibliography of Conjuring (1899)
New Coin Tricks, 2nd Series (1900)
New Handkerchief Tricks (1900)
New Card Tricks, First Series (1900)
New Miscellaneous Tricks and Memory Feats (1900)
New Juggling Tricks (1901)
New Card Tricks, 2nd Series (1902)
The Original Tricks of Clement De Lion (1902)
New Miscellaneous Tricks, 2nd Series (1903)
New Fire Tricks and Chemical Magic for the Stage, 1st Series (1904)
Great Paper and String Tricks, 1st Series (1904)
Great Handcuff Tricks (1904)
Great Silent Thought Transmission (1904)
New Billiard Ball Sleights, 1st Series (1904)
Original Explanatory Programmes (1907)
Fire and Chemical Magic for Drawing-Room and Stage, 2nd Series (1907)
Fire and Chemical Magic for Drawing-Room and Stage, 3rd Series (1909)
New Handkerchief Tricks, 2nd Series (1909)
New Card Tricks, 3rd Series (1910)
New Card Tricks, 4th Series (1910)
Mysterious Escapes (1912) (possibly never published)
Stanyon's Magic (1900-1920, periodical)
Hand Shadows: Being a Novel Collection of Finger Silhouettes (1900)
Magic or Conjuring for Amateurs (1901) (Compilation of Conjuring for Amateurs (1897) and Conjuring with Cards (1898).)
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