History of Magic Poster Set

Six fact-checked posters, from a 1584 book that explained conjurors’ coin tricks to the founding of The Magic Circle and the mathematicians who invented card tricks.

Who it’s for: All ages.

What’s inside:

- 1584: the book that gave away the secrets (Reginald Scot)

- 1635: Hocus Pocus Junior

- Robert-Houdin (1805–1871)

- How Houdini got his name

- 1905: The Magic Circle

- Card tricks by mathematicians (Fitch Cheney, Martin Kruskal, David Acheson’s 1089)

- Credits, licence & sources

Pages: 8 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs in one zip.

Printing: print at 100% / actual size. Inside pages have light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every historical and mathematical fact is checked against named sources (Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584; 1886 reprint), Project Gutenberg eBook #60766; Library of Congress blog, ‘It’s Magic! Ye Olde Hocus Pocus’ (2021); PBS American Experience, ‘Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805–1871)’; The Magic Circle, ‘Our Story’; and others), listed on the credits page. The tricks are classic, published methods that need only ordinary cards and coins; no commercial trick is revealed. All drawings and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work, starring Useless the eraser as the magician’s (not very helpful) assistant. No photographs are used.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. Print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share the files publicly. For school-wide use, email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind testyourmagic.com. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.