Conjuror's Magazine, The.
Or, Magical and Physiognomical Mirror.
Other titles: The bound volumes of the journal were entitled: The Conjuror's Magazine, or the Complete Fortune Teller, including the Art of Palmistry, &c., &c. 1791-1793 Monthly
London, England. Publisher: Printed for W. Locke. Succeeded by: Astrologer's Magazine and Philosophical Miscellany 1/1, August 1791-July 1793. 50 pp., 4 x 7. The subtitle was omitted after November 1792. The journal included regular "Select Philosophical Amusements" (how many hands of whist must be dealt before a person receives the same cards? etc.), astrological notes (including a horoscope of George III), explanations of dreams, anecdotes of Kenelm Digby, etc. It also had a question and answer section and a section on curious machines (with a prize awarded for the best), including machines to read concealed letters or numbers and one to see through a board, and also published the physiognomic essays of Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801). The issue for May 1792 has "Proposals for instructing Pupils in Spiritual Knowledge, including a plan for commencing Societies or Colleges for receiving instruction," in which the poet William Gilbert offered to teach "Astrology and Spirit, with the nature and use of Talismans" for 5 guineas per head for classes up to 12, and 150 pounds a year for individual lessons, a proposal discussed by Mark Perugini, "An Eighteenth Century Occult Magazine: And a Query As to William Blake," The Bibliophile (September 1908): 86-89. Bodleian Library; NYL; LOC.

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