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).

G.W. Septimus Piesse

Chymical, natural, and physical magic

1858.

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.

Henry Dircks

On an apparatus for exhibiting optical illusions illustrating spectral phenomena

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

George Arnold e Frank Cahill

The sociable, or, One thousand and one home amusements

Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers, New York 1858.

Jean-Eugéne Robert-Houdin

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

Geo. G. Evans, Philadelphia 1859.

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.