Juvenile Sports for Boys and Girls

Philadelphia: Griffith & Simon, N.D. (Circa 1850). 6 x 4", brown cloth with gilt spine titles and decoration, 108 pp, plus 24 illustration plates (including frontispiece of children playing hockey). A book consisting of descriptions of children's games, sports and amusements, told via a series of dialogues and letters between a schoolboy, his teacher, and his family. Includes chapters on, together with engraved depictions of, hockey, trap ball (a bat and ball game that preceded baseball), cricket, foot ball (soccer), bathing, shuttlecock, flying a kite, blind man's bluff, and much more. Mild foxing to pages, slight staining and spotting to endpapers, wear and discoloration to covers. Item #10830

Price: $350.00