Second sight explained : a complete exposition of clairvoyance or second sight, as exhibited by the late Robert Houdin and Robert Heller : showing how the supposed phenomena may be produced

AN excellent two-person spoken code from 1880. 

Written by Frederick Wicks, who used Bishop's name by arrangement.

Publication date 1880
Topics Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène, 1805-1871, Heller, Robert, 1830-1878, Precognition
Publisher Edinburgh ; Glasgow : John Menzies & Co.

Frederick Wicks was an English author and inventor, whose book The British Constitution and Government was first published in 1871 and ran to several editions. He was born in Stockwell, Surrey, the youngest son of Samuel Wicks, a corn dealer, & Mary Wicks.

Washington Irving Bishop, also known as Wellington was an American stage mentalist. He started his career as an assistant under the muscle reader J. Randall Brown, but was most well known for his performance of the blindfold drive.