Volume one of a two volume work, probably from 1870-1890. Lists amusements, including angling; the aquarium; bicycling; billiards; boats and sailing; butterfly collecting; casting; chess; cricket; croquet; draughts; driving; eggs and egg-collecting; electrotyping; feather work; fencing; playground games; pets; joinery; kite-making; magic; magic lantern (the galanty show, magic circle, my first lantern, historical, optics, light, wave motion, rays and beams, the demonstrating lantern, light, transparency, shadows, ombres chinoises, pantomime); paper-flower making; photography (apparatus and materials, the positive collodion process, dark room, examinations, plate cleaning, focussing, collodions, to cover a plate, the bath, finishing, the negative collodion process, photographic negative, manipulation, collodion and chemicals, preparation of nitrate bath, developer and intensifier, the negative process, exposure, development, test of density, fixes, varnishes); portraits (including colouring photographs); riding; round games; rowing; silkworms; skeleton leaves; swimming; toy-making; whist; window gardening. Illustrated with engravings.
| Item number | 42622 |
|---|---|
| Category | Book |
| Type | Toys And Games |
| Dimensions | length 258mm; breadth 194mm; thickness 26mm |
| Language | English |
| Country of origin | UK |
| Related people | J.C. Leake (author) |
| Samuel Highley (author) |
Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection