Text: Dennis Crompton, David Henry and Stephen Herbert (editors), Magic images: the art of hand-painted and photographic lantern slides (London: Magic Lantern Society, 1990)
Front cover
Tony Dugdale, Preface, p. 3
David Robinson, Introduction: shows and slides, pp. 5-8
'Can any of the readers of these pages inform me who originally invented dissolving views?', pp. 9-18
John Barnes (compiler), A list of magic lantern manufacturers and dealers active in England during the 19th century, pp. 19-30
Winged arrows, p. 31
Laurent Mannoni (trans. David Robinson), The tomb of Robertson, pp. 32-33
Herman Bollaert, Wilhelm Busch: Diogenes and the naughty boys of Corinth, pp. 34-37
James Fenton, The evolution of photographic lantern slides, pp. 38-43
Ron Morris, Victorian slide viewers, pp. 44-46
A magic lantern entertainment by Timothy Toddle, pp. 47-53
David Henry, Jessica's first prayer, pp. 54-59
The miller, his son, and their ass, pp. 60-61
John Jones, David Roberts: a Victorian traveller and painter, p. 62
Richard Balzer, Slide collecting, pp. 63-65
The lady of the lake: by Sir Walter Scott, Bart, pp. 66-70
Lantern slides in the Oxford Museum of the History of Science, pp. 71-74
John Barnes, Classification of magic lantern slides for cataloguing and documentation, pp. 75-84
Edmund H. Wilkie, Optical and mechanical effects for the lantern, pp. 85-96
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