Victorian conjuror's collection goes on show at British Library
The Great Evanion, then down on his luck, gave photographs, tickets, playbills and posters to library in 1895In 1895 the British Library did something extraordinary: it bought, for 20 shillings, the entire collection of a down-on-his-luck conjurer and collector, the Great Evanion, "the royal conjurer and humourist".By then Evanion, real name Harry Evans, was living in a basement flat in Kennington, but he brought a w…