THE POPULAR RECREATOR. A KEY TO IN-DOOR AND OUT-DOOR AMUSEMENTS (TWO VOLUMES, COMPLETE)

Various

Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, England, 1873

About this Item

Quartos. Half-leather over cloth-covered boards. [iv],pp. 384 + 8 (Index) (1); [iv], pp. 384, Gilt lettering to spines. Wear and rubbing to extremities. Generously illustrated. Decorated initials. Format consists of multiple and different articles on the same activity - LOTS on Billiards, for instance. VOLUME I: Billiards, Feather work, Photography, Chess, Cricket, Bicycling, Driving, Boats and Boat Sailing, Window Gardening, Swimming, Toy-Making, Whist, Joinery, Rowing, Fencing, Legerdemain, Home Pets, Round Games, Angling, Butterfly and Moth Collecting, Colouring Portraits, Draughts, Electrotyping, Kite-Making, The Magic Lantern, Games of the Playground, The Aquarium, Paper-Flower Making. VOLUME II:(Only Topics listed not showing under Volume I, but still present in numerous articles): Archery, Bagaetlle, Bezique, Bird Collecting and Skinning, Canoes and Canoeing, Card Games, Casting, Croquet, Decalcomanie, Diapanie, Egg-Collecting, Firework-Making, Forfeits, Golf, Gymnastics, Indian Badminton, or Lawn Racquets, La Crosse, Marbles, Ornamental Paper Work, Perforated Cardboard, Polo, Potichomanie, Quoits and Bowls, Silkworms, Skating, Skeleton Leaves, Spray Work, Tops, Zetema. Seller Inventory # 86588

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE POPULAR RECREATOR. A KEY TO IN-DOOR AND ...

Publisher: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, England

Publication Date: 1873

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition.