The Ghost! as Produced in the Spectre Drama, Popularly Illustrating the Marvellous Optical Illusions Obtained by the Apparatus Called the Dircksian Phantasmagoria: Being a Full Account of Its History, Construction, and Various AdaptationsE. & F.N. Spon, 1863 |
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