Bibliographies are, generally, lists of books and magazines around a particular topic. Over the years, collectors and scholars have written and published dozens, if not hundreds, of bibliographies on magic and illusion in various languages and on various sub-topics.
If you are a library or collector wanting to grow your library, bibliographies can be used as good checklists for seeing what you have and what you maybe still need.
The list below is a growing selection of some particularly helpful bibliographies. You can buy these in print from dealers, collectors, and bookstores, often find and borrow them from local and university libraries, or see digital copies with paid subscriptions through resources like Ask Alexander.
Bibliografia Italiana di Giuochi di Carte (“Italian Bibliography of Card Games”)
by: Alfredo Lensi
Published: Firenze, Pei tipi di S. Landi, 1892
Reprinted: Ravenna, Longo Editore, 1985
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Bibliographical Notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets
by: John Ferguson
Published: 1882
Reprinted: 1959, 1998, 2005
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Bibliographie de la Prestidigitation Française et des Arts annexes (“Bibliography of French Conjuring and Related Arts”)
by: Christian Fechner
Published: Boulogne, F.C.F., 1994
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Bibliographie de la Prestidigitation française: ancienne et moderne (“Bibliography of French Conjuring: Ancient and Modern”)
by: Théodore Ruegg
Published: Dijon, Imprimerie Bernigaud et Privat, 1931
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Bibliographie des deutschsprachigen Schrifttums zur Zauberkunst : Publikationen bis 1945 (“Bibliography of German-language literature on magic: publications up to 1945”)
by: Volker Huber and Christian Theiß
Published: Offenbach am Main : Edition Volker Huber, 2019
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A bibliography of books on conjuring in English from 1580 to 1850
by: Trevor H. Hall
Published: 1957
Reprinted: 1998, 2008
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Bibliography of books, pamphlets, magazines, etc. bearing a Scottish imprint, or known to have been published in Scotland, together with notes concerning these books and ephemera
by: James B. Findlay
Published: 1951
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The Bibliography of Conjuring and Kindred Deceptions
by: Sidney W. Clarke and Adolphe Blind
Published: 1920
Reprinted: 1998, 1999
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A Bibliography of Conjuring Periodicals in English: 1791-1983
by: James B. Alfredson and George L. Daily
Published: 1986
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A bibliography of English conjuring
by: Raymond Toole-Stott
Published: 1976
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A Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gaming
by: Frederic Jessel
Published: 1905
Reprinted: 2009
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How’s your library?: a guide to cataloguing and caring for books
by: J. B. Findlay
Published: 1958
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Magic as a performing art : a bibliography of conjuring
by: Robert Gill
Published: 1976
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