Author: Anonymous
Title: Games of Skill and Conjuring: Including Draughts, Dominoes, Chess, Morrice, Fox and Geese, Conjuring, Legerdemain, Tricks with Apparatus, Tricks with Cards, Boat-Building, Modelling, Deaf and Dumb Alphabet, Riddles, Acting Charades, Puzzles and Paradoxes, Useful Amusements, Shows, Model Stage, Tinselling, Etc Ect.
Description: London, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge , 1861 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this guide on various games of skill and conjuring, with one hundred and fifty one illustrations. The first edition of this work published in 1861. A very scarce copy held institutionally by five libraries only. A remarkable reference work on games of skill and conjuring such as draughts, dominoes, chess, moirrice, fox and geese, conjuring, legerdemain, and others. Detailing the rules of each game with exercises and tricks to improve a gaming performance. Illustrated with one hundred and fifty one illustrations in text throughout. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart with slight shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with one hundred and fifty one illustrations in text throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Unnamed. Very Good .

Keywords: first editions games puzzles skills games very scarce illustrations Unnamed


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