Since childhood, I've been fascinated with magicians and illusions.  My own career as a magician, however, got off to a messy start when I botched the Chinese Rice Bowls trick during my first show, leaving the table and other tricks soaked with water.  It went straight downhill after that.  I did get a high-five from David Copperfield at one of his shows, though---ask me about that sometime and I'll be glad to underwhelm you with the details.

But anywho...at one time I had quite a collection of vintage magic trick books and scanned the artwork from many of them.  I love the way the old art looks.  These were all scanned and cleaned up by yours truly-all are all public domain and copyright-free as far as I know. Click on a thumbnail for a larger version to save. Please do not link directly to them, but instead save them to your own hard drive/server and link from there.