Author: JUVENILE SPORT.
Title: The Book of Games; or, A History of Juvenile Sports, Practised at a Considerable Academy near Londonj. Illustrated by Twenty-Four Copper Plates.
Description: London: Printed for Tabart & Co. at the Juvenile and School Library...By B. M'Millan..., 1810. 12mo, 133 x 87 mms., pp. [iv], 168, 24 engraved plates, first 3 hand-coloured, lacking advertisements at end, light foxing and spotting, tissue repair to inner margins of first and last couple of leaves, repaired tears to "Hockey" and "Leaping" plates, some leaves with small loss to foot, crudely bound in green roan spine, boards (soiled), expert repairs to joints and spine extremities. Not a salubrious copy but a lucky survival. An earlier edition was published in 1805 and another in 1812. The games are presented in a narrative, starring a boy named Thomas White. I am old enough to have played some of the games and to have known about others; but I wonder how many ten-year-olds these days have flown a kite or spun a top? Gumuchian,; 804; Moon, M. Tabart,; 14(2) Osborne lists an 1812 edition lacking three plates.

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