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