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Bob Wallace / Magic
← Sharps and Flats
John Nevil MaskelyneContents

Edition Notes and Source

Transcriber’s Notes

Author quoted some pamphlets and deliberately kept their spelling and punctuation errors; those have not been changed here.

Other punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling inconsistencies have been standardized when a clear preference was used in this book, and left unchanged otherwise.

Illustrations have been resized and repositioned to be closer to the text that first refers to them. On some display devices, clicking on a blue-bordered illustration will show a larger, more detailed image in the current window.

Source: Project Gutenberg, eBook 41169. Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team from images made available by the Internet Archive.

Book contents

Front matter

  1. Title Page and Frontispiece
  2. Preface
  3. Contents
  4. List Of Plates

Chapters

  1. Chapter I — Introductory
  2. Chapter II — Common Sharpers And Their Tricks
  3. Chapter III — Marked Cards And The Manner Of Their Employment
  4. Chapter IV — Reflectors
  5. Chapter V — Holdouts
  6. Chapter VI — Manipulation
  7. Chapter VII — Collusion And Conspiracy
  8. Chapter VIII — The Game Of Faro
  9. Chapter IX — Prepared Cards
  10. Chapter X — Dice
  11. Chapter XI — High-Ball Poker
  12. Chapter XII — Roulette And Allied Games
  13. Chapter XIII — Sporting-Houses
  14. Chapter XIV — Sharps And Flats

Notes and Postscript

  1. Postscript
  2. Footnotes
  3. Edition Notes and Source