Greater Magic: A Practical Treatise on Modern Magic (1938) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and comprehensive "encyclopedias" in the history of magic literature. Written by John Northern Hilliard
He jerked his hand back. The PDF now had pages. Dozens of them. They weren’t tricks with doves or coin vanishes. They were operations.
: Hilliard’s last written words captured his nostalgia, comparing himself to the "old men who sit on the Scaean Gate," looking down upon the games and remembering how much better magic was "in the days when they were young". specific trick
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