The Art of Illusion
by Will Ayling

This is a classic work on illusions that focuses on the presentation and staging. The method of the illusion is explained often with illustrations but no detailed building plans with dimensions are included.

Table of Contents

• Floating and Phantom Princess
• Sword and Chair Suspension
• Broomstick and Kellar Levitation
• Aga Illusion
• Temple of Swords
• Head Cremation
• Crushing a Woman
• Temple of Benares
• Broomwitch
• Golfer's Dream
• Eye of a Needle
• Rod Through Mediaeval Style
• Tiger
• Totem Pole
• Rod & Rope Release
• Guillotine
• Head Chopper
• Vivisection of a Clown
• Wrist Chopper
• Long Swallow
• Sawing Through
• Great Divide
• Sawn Life in an Egg
• Buzz Saw
• Volunteer Sawing
• Hey Presto
• Card Castle
• Model Illusion
• Doll's House
• Glass Trunk
• Black and White
• Triple Change
• Big Time
• Magician's Rehearsal
• Backstage With a Magician
• Cabaret de la Mort
• Bullet Catching
• Hugard's Bullet Catching
• Anneman's Bullet in the Mouth
• Fogel Catcher of Bullets
• Canvas Trunk Illusion
• The Accident
• Packing Case
• Substitution Box
• Great Invisible Flight
• Intermezzo
• Cluck Cluck
• Duck Production
• Small House
• Parasol
• Inexhaustible Beer Barrel
• Raoul's Talking Record
• Illusionist
• Assistant's Revenge
• Statue
• Turn Over Candle
• Multiplying Lighted Candles
• Finale
• Thoughts of the Genie

1st edition 1968 by Harry Stanley, reprinted by Supreme 1990; PDF 150 pages.
word count: 61503 which is equivalent to 246 standard pages of text