This chapbook, a small cheaply produced paper-covered booklet, takes it’s content from many other guides to conjuring from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Inside are tricks with eggs, cards and coins as well as the means of producing fireworks and explosions with phosphorus and gunpowder. The book was aimed at children, with an advertisement on the back cover offering ‘children’s books, one penny each’ from the publisher Thomas Richardson. Richardson published many editions in the chapbook format in the 1830s and 1840s, including versions of The Whole Art of Legerdemain and The Original Norwood Gypsy; or, The Fortune-teller’s Sure Guide. The books were often issued with brightly coloured foldout frontispieces.