This is a brief update to my previous post on Aart van Breda . Since publishing the original post I've been informed by Michel Grand that...

As anyone who has been following this blog will probably have realised by now, I like books. Especially books on two of my favourite...

One of the references in my last post on the Paper Ladder and Paper Tree was the Dutch book Plezier met papier  ( 1950) by Aart van...

After seeing my last post devoted to Robert Harbin books, renowned origami artist and author Nick Robinson suggested that rather than...

Robert Harbin (1909-1978) was a hugely important figure in the worlds of both origami and magic, and really needs no introduction from me...

The Testament de Jérôme Sharp (1786) by Henri Decremps was one of the first books to provide detailed descriptions of card tricks and...