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[Bill Mullins]

>   Unfortunately, I cannot find a date within the first edition [of Hoffmann's Modern Magic].
>   Google Books assigns the year 1876 to the first edition which is plausible.

The first edition of Modern Magic was issued in 1876.  It came from a compilation of articles written by Hoffmann that had been published in "Every Boy's Magazine," starting in 1874.

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