Wyman's Hand-Book of Magic
by John Wyman

This work covers a lot of ground, from various parlor tricks, chemical tricks, card tricks, to a section on two person codes, and a section on artifices of cardsharks.

• description Of The Magician's Table
• How To Make A Person Jump
• The Invisible Chicken, Or Enchanted Egg Bag, As Performed By The Celebrated Wyman
• Scrap, Or Blowing Book, As Performed By Potter
• Gun Cotton - How Prepared
• Sympathetic Inks
• Apparatus For Writing In The Dark
• Dancing Turkeys
• The Self-Balanced Pail
• Sympathetic Lamp
• The Gas Candle
• Ice Made In A Red Hot Vessel
• Magical Colours
• The Magic Nosegay Blowing At The Word Of Command
• Theory Of The Jew's Harp
• Mons. Adrian's Great Trick Of The Egyptian Fluids Or Impossibilities Accomplished
• The Divinating Perspective Glass
• Herr Alexandre's Mode Of Performing The Egg Bag Trick
• Freezing With Liquid
• Metalic Vegetation
• To Take Impressions Of Coins, Metals, &c
• To Pour Wine, Vinegar, And Water, Out Of The Same Bottle
• Enchanted Coin, As Performed By Mons. Adrian
• Mysterious Coin, Or How To Make Dollars Pass Through A Wine Glass, A China Plate, A Table, And Fall Into The Hand
• Theophrastus Paracelsus; Or, The Pigeon Killed By The Thrust Of A Sword Given To Its Shade Or Image
• Destruction Of Two Fluid Bodies, And The Formation Of One New Solid In Their Stead
• Two Invisible Substances, Each Having A Pungent Smell, Converted Into One Visible Compound, Having No Smell
• Destruction Of Two Bodies, And The Formation Of A New Body
• Fire Works In Miniature
• The Changeable Cards, Or Gamblers Outwitted
• The Inexhaustible Bottle
• The Tin Tree
• Blind Abbess And Her Nuns
• Crystallization Upon Cinder
• How To Eat Fire
• The Miniature River On Fire
• The Dancing Card
• Wyman's Gun Trick
• The Invisible Springs
• The Vicar Puffed
• Combustion In And Under Water
• The Magician's Snow Ball. This Is One Of The Faker Of Ava's Best Feats.
• The Astonishing Hindoo Miracle, As Performed By Wm. Marshall, The Original Faker Of Ava
• The Wonderful Orange Tree, As Performed By The Wizard Wyman
• To Kill A Bird And Restore It To Life Again
• To Change Salt To Sugar
• Turning A Glove Into A Bird, &c
• The Cards Named Discovered With The Eyes Blinded
• The Magic Ring
• The Cards In The Opera Glass
• The Burnt Writing Restored
• Preface To The Second Sight Mystery
  • Notice
  • Lesson I
  • Lesson II
  • Lesson III
  • Lesson IV
  • Bell Questions
  • Bell Exercises
  • Conclusion
• Exposure Of The Card Tricks, Made Use Of By Professional Card Players And Sportsmen
  • Whist
    • Reflectors
    • The Longs And Shorts
    • Sauter La Coupe
    • Convex And Concave Cards
    • Handling The Cards
    • Garreting
    • Slipping The Cards
    • Walking The Pegs
    • Pricked Cards
    • The Bridge
    • Skinning
    • Shuffling Or Weaving
    • The Gradus, Or Step
    • Slipping The Fives
    • Saddling The Cards
    • Dealing The Fives From The Bottom
    • The Telegraph
  • The Dice Board
    • Dice And Dice-Boxes
    • Loaded Dice
    • Cogging, Now Called Securing
    • Scratched Dice
    • The Doctor Dice-Box
    • Unequal Dice
  • The Dangers Of A Gaming Table

1st edition 1851; 2nd edition 1855 72 pages; PDF 61 pages.
word count: 21537 which is equivalent to 86 standard pages of text