Philip Breslaw

(1726-1803)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Breslaw, Philip, 1726-1803 LBT ID: PhBresl1803 VIAF ID: 45839790 LOC ID: n88007817	B/BAP: 1726 DIED: 1803
SOURCES: Thomas Frost, Lives of the Conjurors (1876) 127ff; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
A popular Jewish conjurer of the 1760s and 1770s; in 1784 he published Breslaw's Last Legacy which is still reprinted.
REFERENCES TO Philip Breslaw: Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 13 September 1811 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter IX. 1811.