The boy's own toy-maker
a practical illustrated guide to the useful employment of leisure hours : with two hundred engravings
by Ebenezer Landells
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Amusements, Handicraft, Juvenile literature, Paper work, Toy makingShowing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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Preliminary wood-engraved plate with signature: "Landells".
Includes "Preface" (p. [v]-viii) and "Preface to the Second Edition" (p. viii).
"The favourable manner in which this little work has been noticed by the Press, and the patronage it has already received from the Public has been so great as to call for a second edition within two months of the first publication."--Preface to the Second Edition.
Wood-engraved illustrations and diagrams within the text are unsigned.
Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-32 at end with imprint: "Wertheimer and Co., Printers.".
St. John, Judith. Osborne collection of early children's books, Vol. 1, p. 221.
MASS copy: Bound in olive green diagonal wave-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind. Upper cover blocked in gold with title design incorporating small illustrations similar to those within the text. Design with signature: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton]. With pale pastel yellow glazed endpapers. With presentation inscription dated 1859.
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