Robert Hare

Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations

Partridge & Brittan, New York 1856.

Charles Mackay

Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds

Vol. 2, G. Routeledge and sons, London 1856 (I ed. 1841).

Richard James Morrison e Tao-Sze Zadkiel

The royal book of fate: Queen Elizabeth's oracle of future events

Sherwood and co., London 1856.

George Arnold e Henry Llewellyn Williams

The Magician's Own Book or the whole art of conjuring

Dick & Fitzgerald, New York 1857.

Catherine Crowe

The Night Side of Nature. Ghosts and Ghost-seers

Routeledge, London 1857.

John Ayrton Paris

Philosophy in sport made science in earnest

John Murray, London 1857 (I ed. 1827).

John Henry Anderson

The fashionable science of parlour magic: being the newest tricks of deception, developed and illustrated, with an exposure of the practices made use of by professional card players, blacklegs, and gamblers; To which is added for the first time, The magic

1858.

George Arnold e Frank Cahill

The sociable, or, One thousand and one home amusements

Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers, New York 1858.

G.W. Septimus Piesse

Chymical, natural, and physical magic

1858.

Henry Dircks

On an apparatus for exhibiting optical illusions illustrating spectral phenomena

Mechanic's Magazine, 2 ottobre 1858, pp. 321-324.