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David Copperfield's history of magic, David Copperfield, Richard Wiseman, David Britland

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David Copperfield's history of magic

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David Copperfield, Richard Wiseman, David Britland

An illustrated, illuminating history of magic from the world's greatest and most successful magician, capturing its most audacious and inventive practitioners, and showcasing the art form's most famous artifacts housed at David Copperfield's secret museum. In this personal journey through the history of magic, David Copperfield profiles twenty-eight of the world's most groundbreaking magicians. From the sixteenth-century Englishman who wrote the first book on conjuring to the nineteenth-century man who fooled Houdini, to the woman who levitated, vanished, and caught bullets in her teeth,

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History of magic