After one hundred years, Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase, a pseudonym for E. S. Andrews, a railway worker from Chicago, remains the cornerstone of card conjuring and, for those who want to profit from play, a post-graduate course circa 1900 on the technique of cheating at cards.
Jason England and Julie Eng have created a new online exhibition for Magicana which artfully displays, the book which has appeared perpetually in print, and has spawned numerous variants, here and abroad as well as a slew of ancillary discourse, publications and products.
Find out more about this fascinating exhibition at EVERYTHINGERDNASE.COM