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[[Sports and Pastimes]] "or, Sport for the city, and pastime for the country; with a touch of hocus pocus, or leger-demain " by anonymous (1676).  
[[Sports and Pastimes]] '''"or, Sport for the city, and pastime for the country; with a touch of hocus pocus, or leger-demain"''' by anonymous (1676).  


Contains prop bets, practical jokes, and magic including: Ball and Vase (possible the earliest reference), Cut and Restored Hankerchief, Trouble Wit as well as a reference to an early dealer.  
This book contains prop bets, practical jokes, and magic including: [[Ball and Vase]] (possibly the earliest reference), Cut and Restored Hankerchief, [[Troublewit]] as well as a reference to an early dealer.  


== Edition ==
== Edition ==

Revision as of 14:38, 10 December 2008

Sports and Pastimes "or, Sport for the city, and pastime for the country; with a touch of hocus pocus, or leger-demain" by anonymous (1676).

This book contains prop bets, practical jokes, and magic including: Ball and Vase (possibly the earliest reference), Cut and Restored Hankerchief, Troublewit as well as a reference to an early dealer.

Edition

  • First edition (1676) - only two were known to exist at the time of the 1999 reprint.
  • Reprint of the 1676 edition by Steve Burton. (1999)