The Boy's Own Toy-Maker; A Practical Guide to the Useful Employment of Leisure Hours

An abundantly illustrated Victorian children's guide to toys and games during play hours. The scarce fourth edition of the work.In publisher's original red cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece and two hundred in text engravings.A work by Ebeneezer Landells, a British wood-engraver, illustrator, and magazine proprietor.With guides to making paper toys, cardboard toys, cutter, brig, ship, bark, archery, angling, and practical puzzles.A book to 'teach useful things for the pleasant time of play hours'.With a catalogue of new and popular works to the rear. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Shelf wear to extremities, with bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Rubbing to joints, with cloth splitting to rear joint. Marks to boards. Both hinges cracked and fragile, most significant to the rear. Ink inscription to front free endpaper, with loss to top right corner. Internally, generally firmly bound, with up to p.2 loosening at the head. Pages are bright and clean. Good Only.…