Sections on conjuring and juggling; home entertainments (including making a diorama, punch and judy show, shadowgraphs and shadow show, living marionettes, dissolving pictures, peep shows); ventriloquism; model making; toy making; games of skill; puzzles and problems; microscopy; how to make a school museum and a school magazine; stamp collecting; bookbinding; flags; knots; flower-pressing ; carving in peel. 'With over 800 illustrations', mainly drawings and diagrams. Coloured frontispiece.

Item number 45328
Category Book
Type Toys And Games
Dimensions length 226mm; breadth 162mm; thickness 41mm
Language English
Country of origin UK
Related people Morley Adams (editor)

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection