| Stanyon, Ellis: Stanyon's Serial
Lessons in Conjuring ©1899-1910 Ellis Stanyon & Co., "School of Magic" Softcover, stapled manuscript, 5.5x8.5", over 400 pages Also available as an eBook from Lybrary.com |
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Comments: Illustrated with B&W drawings. Stanyon's lessons in magic were released over a period from 1899 to 1910. Richard Kaufman & Alan Greenberg produced a hardcover collection of all the lessons in 1996, and an eBook edition is available from Lybrary.com.
Contents (This listing is missing details of Serial Lessons 18-21. The contents are based on eBooks by Marco's Learned Pig Project; page numbers do no reflect original. Also note that original pamphlets included advertisements for Ellis Stanyon & Co. materials, which are not listed here):
1 Serial Lessons No. 1 New Coin Tricks, 1899
1 Preface
2 Chapter 1 Miscellaneous Tricks
2 Florin v. Penny
3 Vanishing and Appearing Coin: two methods
4 A Trick With Four Shillings
4 Electrical Coin Transportation
5 Marvellous Coin Production
6 Chapter 2 The Miser's Dream and Tricks With The Coins
6 The Miser's Dream
7 Catching Coins
7 - Variations
8 A New Reverse Palm
9 With One Coin, To Pass The Coin From One Hand to the Other Via
the Sleeves
9 A Pass At The Knees
9 With Two Coins
10 With Six or More Coins
10 To Palm Thirty to Forty Coins
11 The Turn-Over With Thirty-Five Coins
1 Serial Lessons No. 2 Bibliography of Conjuring, 1899
1 Preface
3 Bibliography of Conjuring and Kindred Arts
1 Serial Lessons No. 3 New Coin Tricks, 1900
2 Chapter I Novel and Original Sleights
2 - Ordinary Palm No. 1
2 - Ordinary Palm No. 2
3 Thumb Palm No. 1
3 Thumb Palm No. 2
4 Finger Palm No. 1
4 Finger Palm No. 2
4 Reverse Palm No. 1
5 Reverse Palm No. 2
5 Reverse Palm No. 3
6 The Continuous Back and Front Palm
8 Chapter II Sleight of Hand Tricks and Combinations
8 Production of a Coin
8 The Evanishment of One to Six Coins
9 New Methods of Vanishing a Coin
9 New Dissolving Coin
9 New Flying Coins
10 To Pass a Coin Through a Hat
10 The Penetrative Coin
11 The Aerial Coin
11 New Vanishing Coin From Handkerchief
12 The Millionaire
13 Stanyon's New Coin Combination
14 Chapter III
14 The New Coin Wand
15 The Spider
1 Serial Lessons No. 4 New Handkerchief Tricks; 1900
2 Chapter I
2 Introduction
3 Magical Production From the Wand
3 The False Finger
4 New Handkerchief Palm
4 The Continuous Back and Front Palm
5 New Change Over Palm, Production, Vanish and Change Tube
6 To Vanish a Handkerchief
7 The Change by Sleight of Hand
8 Chapter II Some New Knots
8 The Impossible Knot
9 The Instantaneous Knot
10 Double Instantaneous Knot
10 Double Subtle Knot
11 Double Vanishing Know
12 Quadruple Vanishing Knot
13 Chapter III Miscellaneous Handkerchief Tricks
13 Handkerchief vs. Cigarettes
13 A New Mouchoir du Diable
14 Parasol Vs. Handkerchiefs
15 Briton Vs. Boer
16 Tissue Papers, Ribbons, and Flag
1 Serial Lessons No. 5 New Card Tricks, 1900
2 Chapter I
2 Introduction
3 The Herrmann Pass
4 Stanyon's Trick Whist Shuffle
4 The Waterfall Shuffle
5 The Change Over Palm
5 Morritt's Palm and Change
6 The Reverse and Continuous Back and Front
9 Chapter II Miscellaneous Card Tricks
9 New Reading of Cards
11 Card and Ring
11 New Pass With Cards
11 Reading Dice and Cards
12 The Travelling Ace
13 The Rising Cards
14 The Vest Holdout
15 Chapter III
15 The Sticking Cards
15 The Production of Cards From the Mouth
16 The Envanishment of Six Cards
18 To Vanish and Recover Three Cards
18 New Vanish for Three Cards
1 Serial Lessons No. 6 New Miscellaneous Tricks and Memory Feats, 1900
2 Chapter I Miscellaneous Tricks
2 Introduction
3 The Mesmerized Cross of the Chinese Conjurers
3 New Methods of Vanishing a Glass of Water: two methods
4 A Stud in Black and White
5 The Floating Metal Disc
6 The Figure 8 In a String - A New Prick in the Garter Trick
7 The Balanced Coins
8 Wonderful Production of Billiard Balls At the Fingertips
9 Billiard Balls - Four New Passes
10 A New Vanish for Ball
11 A Paper Knife and Jumping Peg
13 Chapter II Memory Feats
13 A Human Phonograph
15 To Memorise 30 to 100 Figures in Any Order
15 Mental Addition
16 A Whist Memory
1 Serial Lessons No. 7 New Juggling Tricks, 1901
2 Preface
3 Chapter 1 Balancing
3 To Balance a Long Strip of Paper
3 Balancing a Paper Bag
4 Egg, Card and Wand
5 Chapter II Spinning
5 Spinning Coins
6 The Spinning Handkerchief
6 Ball or Plate on Stick
7 Hat on Stick
7 Ring and Sunshade
9 Ring and Fan
9 Plate and Basin Spinning
11 Chapter III Balancing and Spinning Combined
11 Spinning and Balancing Plates
12 Candlestick, Card and Cigar Combination
15 Chapter IV Miscellaneous Tricks
15 Juggling With Balls
17 Bottle and Plate
17 Erratic Paper Bands
1 Serial Lessons No. 8 New Card Tricks Second Series; 1902
2 Introduction
2 The Stanyon Shift
3 The Change Pass
3 Stanyon's Invisible Pass
4 Novel Colour Changes
4 Production of Cards From Front Palm
5 A New Bridge (Clinton Burgess)
6 A Trick Nap Shuffle
7 To Cut Any Number of Cards
7 Long Distance Second Sight
8 New Reading of Cards
8 A New Combination for Reverse Palm
10 The New Rising Cards
1 Serial Lessons No. 9 The Original Tricks of Clement de Lion, 1902
2 Chapter 1 Card Tricks
2 The Lion Pass Palm
3 A Selected Card Appears At the Top, Bottom, or In the Centre of
the Pack
3 Reverse Card Palm for Two Conjurers
4 Novel Production of Cards From the Back of the Knees
5 Chapter II Novel Hat Productions
6 Chapter III Miscellaneous & Combination Tricks
6 Egg, Potato, Handkerchief, and Candle Combination
6 Sleight With Lighted Cigars
7 Production of Ordinary Table
8 The Vanishing Lamp
8 Combination Trick With Watch
9 The Magic Restaurant - A Conjuring Pantomime
1 Serial Lessons No. 10 New Miscellaneous Tricks Second Series, 1903
2 The Wonderful Floating Card
3 Magic Telepathy With Cards
4 Subtle Knot Tying With Handkerchiefs
5 Subtle Vanish for Two Balls
6 New Sleights for Showing Both Hands Empty
10 Clairvoyant Figure Reading
11 Stanyon's Book Act
13 Spirit Knot Tying
15 Will, The Witch and the Watchman
1 Serial Lessons No. 11 New Fire Tricks and Chemical Magic for the Stage, 1904
2 Contents
3 Caution
4 Ching Ling Foo Fire Eating
5 To Fireproof the Hands, &c.
5 To Take Boiling Oil in the Mouth
6 Trick Cup for Drinking Boiling Liquor
6 Demon Lights
6 To Eat Balls of Fire and Produce Them From the Ears
7 Conjurer's Ammunition
7 To Take Boiling Lead in the Mouth
8 To Eat Burning Coals
8 Salamandrine Dessert
8 Chain of Fire
8 Biting Off Red Hot Iron
9 Water Stirred Yellow, Scarlet, and Colourless
9 Water into Wine
10 Stanyon's Crystal Water Mystery
11 Exploding Soap Bubbles
11 The Human Gasometer
12 Burning Coals
12 Burning Pitch
12 To Fire Paper, &c., by Breathing On It
13 Burning Brimstone
13 Blazing Sponge Trick
13 Burning Sealing Wax
13 Stanyon's Demon Bowls of Fire
14 The Burning Banana
14 Sparks from the Fingertips
14 New Ink and Water Change
15 Coloured Fires
16 Various Coloured Fires
16 Fire Produced by Water
16 Bimbo-Tehi Fire
17 Fire from the Wand
17 Candle-lighting Extraordinary
18 Candle Extinguished and re-Lighted by Firing a Gun
18 New Blood Writing on Arm
19 Stanyon's Potassium Fire-Bowl
1 Serial Lessons No. 12 Great Paper and String Tricks, 1904
2 Paper Tearing
4 The Great Triple Tearing Feat
5 Red, White and Blue Tri-Colour Effect
6 Torn Design Changed to Confetti
8 The Torn and Restored Paper Ribbon
9 The New Thumb Tie
1 Serial Lessons No. 13 Great Handcuff Tricks, 1904
2 Dramatic Presentation
3 Special Irons and Confederates
5 Prison Cell Escape
6 Keys and Concealing Same, Tricks, &c
1 Serial Lessons No. 14 Stanyon's New Silent Thought
Transmission, 1904
1 Stanyon's Great Silent Thought Transmission
4 Trick Blindfolding
1 Serial Lessons No. 15 New Billiard Ball Sleights, 1904
2 New Billard Ball Sleights
2 Sleights In Combination
2 Production of Ball
3 The Change Over Palm
3 Revolution Round Fingers
3 Pass From Fist
3 The Roll
3 Pass At Mouth
4 An Original Tourniquet
4 The Throw Pass
4 Vanishing Ball In Air
4 New Pass on Arm
5 New Back and Front Pass
6 New Subtle Back and Front Pass
7 New Pass on Knee
7 An Imaginary Pass
7 Interlocked Finger Pass
8 The Back Hand Palm Pass
9 The Gilbert Change Over Palm
9 Stanyon's Pass on Chest
9 Stanyon's Pass at Mouth
9 Stanyon's Tourniquet Pass
10 Stanyon's Tourniquet - Variation to No. 20
10 Extraordinary Pass on Knee
11 A New Vanish for Ball
12 Wonderful Production of Four Balls at Finger Tips
13 A Billiard Ball Combination
14 New Ball Production
15 Subtle Vanish for Two Balls
15 Ball, Class and Handkerchief
1 Serial Lessons No. 16 Original Explanatory Programmes, 1907
1 Preface
2 Martin Chapender, Egyptian Hall, September 1904
2 Vanishing Gloves and "Change" to a Dove
2 Swallowing and Wandering Walking Stick
3 The Magnetized Stick
3 Twelve Picture Cards Placed in Glass Tumbler Change Place With
Twelve Ordinary Cards Held in the Hands
4 Passing Twelve Cards One by One from the Left Hand, along the
sleeve, and
producing them from the inside Left Breast Pocket
4 Sleights with Six Cards
4 Diminishing Cards
4 The Front Colour Change
5 Sleights with a Single Card
5 Rising Cards From Tumbler, &c
6 Various sleights
7 Hat Productions
7 Watch, Rabbit and Nest of Boxes
8 Gustav Fasola, Tivoli Theatre, Barrow-in-Furness, July 1906
8 Production of Fire Bowl
8 Production of Billiard Balls at the Finger Tips
8 Canopy Illusion
8 Growth of Flowers in Empty Pot
8 Cage on Pedestal Illusion
8 Vanishing and Re-appearing Lamp
9 Indian Basket Illusion
9 Drum and Flags
10 Canister and Balls
10 Bird Cage and Paper Bag
10 Cannon and Triple Box Illusion
11 Karl Germain, St. George's Hall, May 3rd, 1907
11 Production of Performer in Cabinet
11 Production of Handkerchiefs
11 Soup Plate and Handkerchiefs
12 Decanters and Flying Handkerchiefs
12 Coffee Trick
13 Rabbit vanish on Tray
13 Mango Tree
13 Glass Goblet of Confetti changes to Dove, &c
14 Sleight with Piece of Paper
14 Flag Production, &c
15 De Biere, Alhambra Theatre, May 15th, 1907
15 Production of Flags from Drum
15 Production of Billiard Balls
15 Production of Five Rose Trees each in a Separate Pot
15 Vanishing and Re-appearing of Doves
16 New Chinese Rice Bowls
16 Surprise Collapsible Table
16 Eggs on Tray
16 Illusion "Well I'm----"
17 Clock Dial
17 Quick Change Illusion
17 Egg Bag
18 Sarcophagus Illusion
1 Serial Lessons No. 17 Fire and Chemical Magic Second
Series, 1907
2 Contents
3 Caution
4 New Effects for Working in Conjunction with the Rice Bowls
5 A New Effect to Work in Conjunction with the Production of a
Bowl of Fire
5 Spontaneous Combustion
6 Chameleon Pictures
6 Marvellous Spirit Pictures
6 The Blushing Picture
7 The Improved Method of Producing Inflated Balloons from a Hat
8 New "Passe Passe" Balloons
9 A Magic Kettle Act
10 The Magic Wine Kettle (Cesco)
11 Magical Illumination
12 Fire Paint, to Make
12 The Fire Scroll
12 Methods of Transferring Newspaper Prints to another Surface
12 An Additional Effect for the Ink and Water Trick
13 Various Wines Poured from one Decanter
13 Chemistry of a Candle
13 To make Coal Gas
14 The Floating Beacon and Chemical Boat
14 Salamandrine Dessert
14 Exploding Soap Bubbles
14 Pharoah's Serpents
14 Fire Eating
15 Artificial Lightning
15 Fringe on a Candle
15 Chemical Firework Top
16 Floating Needle
16 Magic Floating Eggs
16 Secret Correspondence
17 Chemical Vegetation
17 Fulminating Powder
18 The Four Elements
18 Secret Correspondence
19 Japanese Mystery
19 Magic Dye
19 Throw-down Detonating Crackers
19 Burning a Fleet of Ships
20 To Fire Paper with the Breath
20 Mysterious Production and Transmission of Smoke
20 Instantaneous Flame
21 Silver Fire
21 The Magnesium Light
21 Magic Writing with Camel's Hair Brush
1 Serial Lessons No. 18 Fire and Chemical Magic, Third
Series, 1909
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1 Serial Lessons No. 19 New Handkerchief Tricks, Second
Series, 1909
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1 Serial Lessons No. 20 New Card Tricks, Third Series, 1910
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1 Serial Lessons No. 21 New Card Tricks, Fourth Series, 1910
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