David Copperfield’s History of Magic
A tour through magic's past drawn from Copperfield's own museum collection, profiling the conjurers whose inventions still shape the illusions we see today.
Copperfield teams with psychologist Richard Wiseman and magic historian David Britland to open the vault of his own museum, the largest private collection of magic artifacts in the world. Through rare posters, apparatus, and photographs, the book traces the inventors and showmen who built the art of illusion across the centuries. It is part history, part treasure hunt, revealing how the tricks that still astonish audiences today were first dreamed up.
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