Dawes, Edwin A.: Stodare - The Enigma Variations ©1998 Edwin A. Dawes, Kaufman & Company, Washington, D.C. Hardcover, no dj, 273 pages

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Comments: Limited First Edition of 500 copies, illustrated. Includes over 100 tricks from Colonel Stodare's Hand-Book of Magic.

Contents (Chapters from book ToC):

7 Acknowledgements
9 Foreword

11 Chapter 1 Stodare's London
19 Chapter 2 The Stodare Problems Stated
28 Chapter 3 The Stodare Family Name
32 Chapter 4 A Question of Parentage - the Evidence of Robert Spice
41 Chapter 5 Enter Alfred Inglis
46 Chapter 6 Colonel Stodare - the Early Years 1860-1865
56 Chapter 7 The Egyptian Hall Era 17 April - 31 August 1865
68 Chapter 8 The Sphinx
84 Chapter 9 The Fued
95 Chapter 10 Colonel Stodare the Post Egyptian Hall Period August-October 1866
104 Chapter 11 The Career of Alfred Stodare 1866-1882
130 Chapter 12 Madame Elizabeth Stodare
148 Chapter 13 The Stodare Publications
167 Chapter 14 Stodare's Magic

172 Bibliography and References

178 Appendix
178 Scientific Explanations of The Sphinx and The Indian Basket 1866
185 Colonel Stodare's Hand-Book of Magic 1862
221 A New Handy Book of Magic by Colonel Stodare 1865
257 The Patent of Thomas William Tobin and Colonel Stodare
261 The Patents of Alfred Stoddart
271 Index