Houston, Will: The Notebook ©2009 Will Houston, MPG Books Group, Great Britain Hardcover, w/dj, 6.5x9.5", 117 pages ©2010 2nd Edition ©2013 3rd Edition

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Comments: This is a facsimile edition of a book originally written circa 1800 by an unknown author. It was transcribed by Will Houston with additional notes. It is a collection of over 80 card tricks.

Contents (from 3rd edition book ToC):

1 How This Book Is Constructed

3 The Notebook
3 1 The Cards Spread In A Line On The Table, & Turned Over By Only Turning The Card At Either End
3 2 The Four Knaves, In Different Parts Of The Pack, Brought Together.
5 3 The Constable & Four Knaves
5 4 To Call Or Name Every Card In The Pack, Without Looking At Them
7 5 To Write Down Beforehand The Number At Which A Card Thought On, Will Turn Up
9 6 To Make A Card To Turn Up, At Any Given Number From The Bottom
9 7 To Tell By A Card Turning Up, At What Hour Any Person Intends To Rise
11 8 The Cards Being Laid Down In Heaps Or Parcels To Tell The Number Of Spots On All The Bottom Cards
13 9 The Cards Being Cut Into Different Heaps, To Tell The Names Of The Top
Cards
13 10 A Card Made To Vanish From The Pack, By Boaz
13 11 A Card Made To Vanish, And Be Found In Any Particular Place, By Boaz
15 12 A Card Made To Vanish & Afterwards To Return, By Boaz
15 13 To Tell A Card Thought On By A Person Looking Over The Cards In Their Own Hands, As Done By Boaz
19 14 To Tell A Card Drawn From A Pack Lying On The Table
19 15 The Three Magical Parties, As In Hooper R. 02. Vol. 4
19 16 To Make A Card Touched By A Persons Finger To Be Any Particular Card
21 17 To Tell Any Card, At Opening The Pack, By Inserting The Point Of A Knife
Or Sword
21 18 To Tell Any Card, By The Needle Of A Compass Stopping At It. As Done By Rees
23 19 To Make A Card Come Out Of The Pack And Follow You. As Done By Rees.
23 20 The Same Done Differently... By Reay
25 21 To Make A Parcel Of Cards Follow Any One. By Reay
25 22 To Make A Pack Of Cards Follow Any One Round The Room, As Done By Reay
25 23 To Cut At Any Card In The Pack, As Done By Boaz. See Hoop. Recr. 76 Vol. 4. In The Note
27 24 To Cut Either High Or Low Cards At Pleasure, Or As Maxwell Says In His Bill, By An Infallible Rule
27 25 To Change A Card While You Are Looking At It As Done By Boaz
27 26 To Tell Any Card Thought On - Per Force
29 27 To Change Any Card Into One Thought On
31 28 To Make Any One Draw A Card, Per Force, Or To Make Any One Draw The Card You Intend
33 29 To Give Out A Card, Per Force, Behind The Back, Or Behind The Head
35 30 To Give Out A Cad Per Force, As Usually Done By Breslaw
35 31 To Let A Person Draw A Card, While They Hold The Pack In Their Own Hand, As Done By Breslaw
35 32 The Same, As Done By Sieur Reay
37 33 The Same, As Done Differently By Sieur Rea
39 34 To Vary The Card Performance Into Other Tricks
41 35 To Write The Name Of The Card To Be Drawn First
41 36 To Do The Same; Without Giving A Card Per Force
41 37 To Change A Card That Has Been Drawn. Metamorphose Ed.
43 38 To Change A Card On The Top Of The Pack
43 39 To Change The Card At Top, Another Way
43 40 To Change At Once Different Cards On The Top
45 41 Card At Bottom Changed, As Done By Rea
45 42 Card At Bottom, Changed Under A Persons Hand
47 43 Card At Top And That At Bottom, Changed Under Two Persons Hands
47 44 The Same, A Little Differently
47 45 The Top And Bottom Cards Changed, In The Persons Hand, Holding Them
49 46 To Change A Card Under The Hand Or Foot
49 47 To Change A Card Under The Foot, As Done By Rea
51 48 To Change A Card Into Different Cards, Drawn By Several Persons, As
Done By Rea
55 49 To Change A Card Into Another That Was Drawn, As Done By Sieur Rees
55 50 To Change A Card At The Bottom Of A Cut. As Done By Walton
55 51 To Change A Card At Bottom Of The Pack, Or Of A Cut
57 52 To Change A Card In A Persons Hand For One In The Pack
57 53 To Change A Card Stuck On A Fork For One In The Pack
59 54 A Card Under A Person's Hand Changed To One Shown In Another Person's Hand
61 55 A Card Shown In Each Hand & Exchanged Without Bringing The Hands Together
63 56 Cards Changed From One Person To Another, As Done By Sieur Rees
63 57 Card Changed Under & Over The Hand, As Done By Sieur Rea
65 58 Cards Drawn By Ladies Changing To Those Drawn By Gentleman: Which
All Vanish, As Done By Rea
67 59 To Bring To The Top Of The Pack. Cards Drawn And Taken Into The Middle Of It
67 60 To Catch In The Hand Any Card, Out Of A Pack Thrown To The Roof
69 61 To Make Any Card Turn Up Its Face, When The Pack Is Thrown Down
69 62 To Fell The Names Of One Or Several Cards Drawn At Pleasure
71 63 To Tell The Cards Drawn, As Done By Boaz
73 64 To Tell Cards Drawn; & Take Them From The Pocket As Done By Rea
75 65 Cards Drawn, Taken From The Pocket; As Done By Maxwell And Boaz
75 66 To Discover A Card, After The Pack Is Shuffled
77 67 To Tell Or Write Beforehand, The Name Of Of Any Card, A Person Shall Think Of Without Confederacy
79 68 To Tell, Or Write Beforehand The Name Of The Card That Will Turn Up At Any Given Number From The Top
79 69 To Cut The Cards, And Tell Without Seeing It, The Card At Bottom Of The Cut
79 70 To Make Any Person Tell The Name Of A Card Thought On, Or Drawn By Another, As Done By Rea
81 71 The Same, Another Way: Done By Breslaw
81 72 The Same Another Way: As Done By Breslaw Or To Communicate The Thoughts Of One Person To Another; Without The Assistance Of Speech, Writing, Or Confederacy.
83 73 4 Aces Turned Into 4 Knaves: Or Red Cards Turned Into Black
85 74 To Change Cards Laying On A Table; By Rea. Or Four Knaves Turned Into Four Aces
85 75 A Card Conveyed Into A Pocket Book Or Letter
87 76 A Card Conveyed Into A Tea-Caddy, As Done By Rees
87 77 A Card Conveyed Into An Egg. As By Rees
89 78 A Card Discovered By The Point Of A Sword, As Done By Boaz
91 79 A Card Burnt And Restored From It’S Ashes As Done By Rees
93 80 A Card Thought On, Shot Through With A Pistol Bullet, As Done By Boaz, Astley & Katerfello
93 81 A Card Nailed To The Wall By A Pistol Shot

94 Additional References

100 Additional Handlings
100 Additional Handling For Number 8
101 Additional Handling For Number 34
102 Additional Handling For Number 74

104 Biographies
104 Astley
104 Boaz
105 Breslaw
105 Denton
106 Hooper
106 Katterfelto
106 Maxwell
107 Rea/Reay
107 Rees
108 Scot
108 Walton
109 Facsimile Of Boaz's Advertisement
110 Facsimile Of Breslaw's Letter
112 Dating The Notebook
117 Acknowledgements