"The moving figure came nearner, and stood before him."  From God's Winepress by Arthur Jenkinson, 1896.

Here's a poster from 1875.

"It tells how you can charm those you meet."  From an 1899 advertisement.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.

"Magic figure," from The Eastern Wonderland by D. C. Angus, 1882.

The Gentleman Who Vanished: A Psychological Phantasy by Fergus Hume, 1890.  Also very much of interest: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.

"Thought reading extraordinary," from A Rambler's Recollections and Reflections by Alfred Capper, 1915.

"In an instant the red wig disappeared," and we wish we were at liberty to reveal the secret of this mystification.  From Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, edited by Percy Bolingbroke Saint John, 1884.

Here's Cupid as a quick-change artist, from Bachelor Ballads and Other Lazy Lyrics by Harry Spurr, 1899.

We're honored that the renowned philosopher of magic Robert E. Neale (author of The Sense of Wonder) thinks we've stumbled upon the secret to world peace with our Seance Parlor Feng Shui project: 

Prof. Oddfellow has carried the logical approach to nonsense to even greater heights than before. The logic of two absurd systems logically joined into a masterpiece of faith for fools that could stop us from killing each other. My delight lies in making up meaning, but his talent in this is unsurpassed. This treatise will lurk about on our coffee table waiting to preside over a promising guest. In the meantime, I might play with feng shui myself.

Woohoo!