Pinchbeck, William Frederick: The Expositor ©1805 Boston, Printed for the Author Hardcover, no dj, 100 pages ©1996 Stevens Publishing Hardcover, no dj, 4.25x7.5", 105 pages

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Comments: Or "Many mysteries unravelled, deliniated, in a series of letters between a friend and his correspondent". A 1996 revised edition was published by Stevens Magic Emporium, and was based on an 1805 edition owned by Byron Walker. Presented as a series of letters between A.B. and William F. Pinchbeck.

Contents: (from a digitized version at Archive.org from the Boston Library):

5 To The Public
7 Index

9 Letter I, from A.B. to W.F.P.: Request for info on how the Learned Pig was taught
12 Letter II, In Answer, W.F.P. to A.B.: Lesson 1
15 Letter III, A.B. to W.F.P.
17 Letter IV, In Answer, W.F.P. to A.B.: Lessons 2 and 3, training the pig with cards
20 Letter V, from A.B. to W.F.P.
21 Letter VI, in Answer, W.F.P. to A.B.: Lesson 4
25 Letter VII, From A.B. to W.F.P.: success
26 Letter VIII, In Answer to the Last, From W.F.P. to A.B.

27 Letter IX From A.B. to W.F.P.: The Invisible Lady and the Acoustic Temple described
30 Letter X In Answer to Letter IX, From W.F.P. to A.B.: intent to build
31 Letter XI from W.F.P. to A.B.: explaining the principles of the Acoustic Temple
34 Letter XII From A.B. to W.F.P.
35 Letter XIII W.F.P. to A.B.: explaining the Lady's apparent seeing

37 Letter XIV From A.B. to W.F.P: Concluding the Temple and introducing Ranie's art of legerdemain
40 Letter XV From W.F.P. to A.B.
41 - First The Philosophical Swan
42 - How to Catch a Ball Discharged From a Gun On the Point of a Dagger

44 Letter XVI From A.B. to W.F.P.
45 Letter XVII From W.F.P. to A.B.
46 - The Manner How a Card Fastened to a Table Changes Its Situation
47 - The Manner How He Swallows Knives and Forks
48 - The Manner How He Breaks a Watch and Restores It To Its Former State

49 Letter XVIII On the Subjec of the Last Letter, From W.F.P. to A.B.
50 - How Eggs Are Transformed Into Pancakes
51 - How Dollars Apparently Sink Through a Plate and Table, Change Into a Ball, and Return
53 - Opinion on Ventriloquism
56 - Story on the Power of Mimicrky

57 Letter XIX from A.B. to W.F.P.: request for advice on skills needed for a performer
58 Letter XX From W.F.P. to A.B.: brief response
59 Letter XXI From A.B. to W.F.P.: question on Ventriloquist skills
60 Letter XXII From W.F.P. to A.B.: response
61 Letter XXII From A.B. to W.F.P.

62 Letter XXIV From W.F.P. to A.B.:
62 - How to Take a Number of Eggs From a Bag Apparently Empty
63 - How To Make the Ace of Hearts Become the Ace of Clubs and Vice Versa
64 - How to Burn a Card to Ashes, and Restore It to Its Former State, the Company Detaining a Piee of the Card in Order to Prove Its Being the Same Proposed to be Burnt
65 - How to Light a Candle With the Poine of a Sword
65 - How to Transfer Money From One Handerchief to Another

66 Letter XXV In Continuation, W.F.P. to A.B.
66 - How to Fire a Lady's Ring From a Gun in Such a Manner, That the Same Shall be Found Confined Under Lock and Key, One of the Company Taking the Key

68 Letter XXVI From A.B. to W.F.P.: idea for a Museum
69 Letter XXVII From W.F.P. to A.B.: thoughts on ingenuity

73 Letter XXVIII From W.F.P. to A.B.:
73 How to Make an Handkerchief Belonging to One of the Company Follow the Exhibitor Out of the Room
73 How to Convey a Card Into an Egg

74 Letter XXIX From W.F.P. to A.B.: Optical Delusions, styled Penetrating Telescopes
76 - Physiognotrace (Mr. Hawkins)

81 Appendix
81 Letter I. From A.B. to W.F.P.: thoughts on publication
82 Letter II From W.F.P. to A.B.: thoughts on being an author and some of the effects
86 - Death of a Mouse: poem
89 Letter III From A.B. to W.F.P.
90 Letter IV From W.F.P. to A.B.: dangers of superstition
94 Letter V From W.F.P. to A.B.:
94 - By What Manner the Pig is Thought to Keep The Card Drawn
97 Letter VI From A.B. to W.F.P.
98 Letter VII From W.F.P. to A.B.: thoughts on Philanthropy