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

Overview:

• Title: Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjurer
• Author: Robert-Houdin
• Year: 1860
• Publisher: Chapman & Hall
• Pages: xii+339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Non-fiction
• Title Reference: Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and Conjurer
• Notes:
  • 2nd ed., now in one volume, size 20 cm. {{tr|Lascelles Wraxall}}
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy without original cover: Title page (quote two lines):   Written By Himself.   Second Edition. -- "Translator's Preface", p[iii]-iv, closes "Lascelles Wraxall." (alone). -- "Contents", p[v]-ix, chapters I-XXII only -- "The Overture", p[xi]-x, under heading "Saint Gervais, near Blois, September, 1858", closes "Without further hesitation I begin." -- chapters I-XXII span p[1]-339 -- p[340], "LONDON: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street and Charing Cross" -- back pages [1]-16: "February, 1860"; "List of Books published by Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly."
  • That publisher's catalogue lists this title twice: • under general heading "In the Press", as "Cheaper Edition" (page 2) • under general heading "Cheap Editions of Works by Popular Authors, handsomely printed in crown octavo, and uniformly bound in cloth", as "In the Press", no edition number or price (page 6, after five listings at prices 5/- and 6/-).