Portrait photograph by Walter Baker of Birmingham and copy of his book 'Practical Conjuring.'

The studio photograph, with printed label of 'Walter Baker, 159, Mosely Road, Birmingham. Highgate Studios.' on reverse, and the manuscript number '24704 | 98'. is a good clear head and shoulders portrait (dimensions roughly three and a half inches by two and a quarter wide), in very good condition. Although untitled, it seems to be Carl, as represented on the title-page of his book, without the moustache and a little younger. The book is twenty-eight pages, octavo, in original coloured printed boards. Numerous line drawings. A little aged, and with a small hole in last leaf (not affecting text). Boards a tad grubby. A scarce item, the only copy on COPAC being in the Harry Price collection at the University of London. Includes instructions on 'How to Produce a Live Bantam Cockerel from an Opera Hat', 'How to change a Borrowed Watch for a Dummy', 'The Man in the Moon or Photograph of Yourself', 'Cannon Ball Servante' and 'Funny Perriott Hat and Egg Trick'. Includes a price list for '[t]he whole of the Apparatus described in this Book'.