Jim Steinmeyer – The Mystery Of Psycho

Description

Limited Edition. Staplebound. This copy is hand-numbered 328 of a limited edition of 500 copies. 11″ X 8″. 63pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With black-and-white illustrations throughout and a color frontispiece featuring Harry Kellar’s Psycho tipped in.

Psycho was a sophisticated automaton created by English magician and inventor, John Nevil Maskelyne (1839-1917). Maskelyne first debuted his creation at The Egyptian Hall in London in 1875, where it performed for audiences by playing the English trick-taking card game,