Stanyon, Ellis: Card Tricks, a Practical Treatise on Conjuring With Cards ©1900 The Penn Publishing Company Hardcover, 129 pages

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Comments: 1914 ed.; Updated as "Card Tricks for Everyone" in 1968 by Emerson Books, Inc., with an introduction by John Mulholland.

Contents:

5 Preface
7 Introduction: The Art of Conjuring

12 Chapter 1 Principles of Sleight of Hand
12 The Pass (Sauter la Coupe)
13 To Force a Card
15 The Change
18 To Palm a Card
21 The False Shuffle
24 To Slip a Card
25 The Ruffle
25 To Throw a Card
27 To Spring the Cards from One Hand to the Other

29 Chapter 2 Sleight of Hand Tricks
30 The Cards Passing Up the Sleeve
33 The Card and Cigarette
37 To Pass a Card throuhg a Handkerchief
39 To Pass any Number of Cards along the Sleeve, and Produce them from the Breast Pocket
42 Card, Coin and Candle
47 The Card in the Candle
49 A New Method of Discovering a Chosen Card
51 To Precipitate a Number of Cards
55 The Card Banner

59 Chapter 3 Tricks Performed without the Aid of Sleight of Hand
59 A Diamond Jubilee Trick
61 To Cause Two Cards Placed in the Centre of the Pack to Appear at the Top
62 To Name Instantly a Chosen Card
63 Odds and Evens
64 An Effective Method of Discovering a Chosen Card
66 The Magnetized Cards
67 Foretelling Thought with Cards
70 To Discover a Chosen Card by Its Weight
71 To Name Cards in a Pack Previously Shuffled, without Seeing Them
72 Artificial Clairvoyance
73 Long Distance Second Sight with Cards
76 The Diminishing Cards (New Method)
82 - Notes on the Above Trick

85 Chapter 4 Tricks with Special Cards and Apparatus
85 The Long Card
85 Long and Shorts
86 Tricks with the Long Card
89 Tricks with Long and Short Packs
92 Changing Cards
96 The Fairy Star
97 To Fire a Selected Card into either of Two Candles Burning on the Table
100 Card Cricket
102 The Cards and Boards
104 The Card and Bottle
106 The Rising Cards
115 The Cascade of Cards
118 The Dissected Card Box

124 Chapter 5 Conclusion