Magic reading list

Dawes, Edwin A., The Great Illusionists, New Jersey, Chartwell Books, 1979

Dawes, Edwin A., and Arthur Setterington, The Book of Magic, London, Admiral Books, 1986

Fisher, John, Paul Daniels and the Story of Magic, London, Jonathan Cape, 1987

Gibson, Walter, Secrets of the Great Magicians, London: Collins, 1976

Hopkins, Albert A., compiler and ed., Magic, Stage Illusions, Special Effects and Trick Photography, New York: Dover Publications,1976

McGill, Ormond, The New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism, Carmarthen, Anglo American Book Co., 1996

Milbourne, Christopher, The Illustrated History of Magic,London, Robert Hale,1975

Steinmeyer, Jim, Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible, London, Arrow, 2005

Symes, Michael, Magic and Illusion,Princes Risborough, Shire, 2004

Waters, T.A., The Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians (Oxford, Facts on File, 1988

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Event - Subsidy, Patronage & Sponsorship : Theatre and Performance Culture in Uncertain Times

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