William Godwin

Lives of the necromancers or an account of the most eminent persons in successive ages, who have claimed for themselves, or to whom has been imputed by others, the exercise of magical power 

Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, London 1834.

Henry Cockton

The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox the ventriloquist

Willoughby and co., London 1849.

Jean-Eugéne Robert-Houdin

Memoirs of Robert-Houdin written by himself

Vol. 1, Chapman and Hall, Piccadilly, London 1859.

Jean-Eugéne Robert-Houdin

Memoirs of Robert-Houdin written by himself

Vol. 2, Chapman and Hall, Piccadilly, London 1859.

Jean-Eugéne Robert-Houdin

Memoirs of Robert-Houdin: Ambassador, Author, and Conjurer

Chapman and Hall, London 1860.

Thomas Low Nichols

A biography of the brothers Davenport: with some account of the physical and psychical phenomena which have occurred in their presence in America and Europe

Saunders, Otley and co., London 1864.

Jean-Eugéne Robert-Houdin

Robert-Houdin: ambassador, author, and conjuror

Chapman and Hall, London 1870.

Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin

The Secrets of Stage Conjuring

George Routeledge and Sons, London 1881.

William Rutherford Hayes Trowbridge

Cagliostro. The splendour and misery of a master of magic

Chapman & Hall, London 1910.

Charles Bertram

A Magician in Many Lands

George Routeledge and sons, London 1911.