Friends of the ABA visit to the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature

We are delighted to offer Friends and Members of the ABA the chance to visit the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature at Senate House Library.

Event Details: Tuesday 26 November 2024, 5pm

Senate House Library, Senate House, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU.

This is a free event for Friends and Members.

Please email secretary@aba.org.uk to book your place on this tour.

The collection comprises nearly 13,000 books, pamphlets and periodical titles, some rare, on all aspects of magic, printed between 1472 and the twenty-first century. The basis of this collection is the library formed by the psychical researcher and writer Harry Price (1881-1948).

Academic Librarian Tansy Barton will show us early works on witchcraft, magic and ghosts, rare pamphlets and books on spiritualism and psychical research, ephemera including handbills and posters related to conjuring and magic, and recent acquisitions including an 18th century magicians blow book.