Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjurer

Overview:

  • Title: Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjurer
  • Author: Robert-Houdin
  • Year: 1859
  • Publisher: Geo. G. Evans
  • Pages: 445
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjurer
  • Notes:
    • {{tr|Lascelles Wraxall}} (uncredited) "Written By Himself." "Edited by Dr. R. Shelton Mackenzie." This is the source text for Project Gutenberg Ebook #42916 (see for more information).
    • Library of Congress provides "page view" of its copy 2, one from its Harry Houdini Collection, with original cover apparently, and perhaps original color endpapers (image 1 (spine) and 2-4, 461-63).
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of two copies that must be recommended for convenient examination of printed pages: -- T.p. verso states "Entered ... 1859, by G. G. Evans ..." (not "Geo. G." as in the title page imprint. -- Editor's Preface, p[3]-6, closes (quote three lines):   I have added an Index to this volume, which I trust will be accepted as useful.   R. Shelton Mackenzie.   Philadelphia, Sept. 26, 1859. -- Contents, p[7]-12, lists chapters 1-22 and Index -- The Author's Overture, p[13]-15, dated September 1858 at the head and closing "Without further hesitation I begin."; "Robert-Houdin." -- chapters 1-22 span p[17]-436 -- Index, p[439]-45