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.

The Book of 500 Curious Puzzles, Containing a Large Collection of Entertaining Paradoxes, Perplexing Deceptions in Numbers, and Amusing Tricks in Geometry

Dick & Fitzgerald, New York 1859.

W.H. Cremer junior

The Secret Out

Chatto and Windus, London 1859.

Ebenezer Landells

The boy's own toy-maker. A practical illustrated guide

Shepard, Clark, and Brown, Boston 1859.

Jean-Eugéne Robert-Houdin

Robert Houdin: The Great Wizard, Celebrated French Conjurer, Author, and Ambassador

Charles Desilver and sons, Philadelphia 1859.

Jean-Eugéne Robert-Houdin

Life of Robert Houdin: The King of the Conjurers

Porter & Coates, Philadelphia 1859.

Jean-Eugéne Robert-Houdin

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

Geo. G. Evans, Philadelphia 1859.