That's an excellent monocled magician you've got there Deke!
As for the 'Magic' book, I genuinely think that I'd have any edition rather than none whatsoever. Although a few images might have been left out of the most recent edition there are so many of them to begin with, that you're never going to feel robbed. In fact I don't believe there's a single page - other than the chapter headings - which doesn't have at least one decent image bobbing about in it somewhere. What you will find however is that a lot of the writing is 'duplicated' as it's a trilingual book with captions in English, German and French. But as I said, it's so image heavy that you cannot help but delight in it. As far as magic poster are concerned I don't think there can be a better reference.