Youthful sports.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 3605.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Games.

Play.

Sex role.

Snowmen.

Genre:

Games.

Juvenile literature -- 1802.

Fables -- 1802.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered leaves of plates; 1 unnumbered page, 26-59 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 14 cm

Place of Publication:

Philada. : Published by Jacob Johnson no. 147 Market St., 1802.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Contents:

1. Shooting with bow and arrow

2. Bird-nesting

3. Thread the needle

4. Dressing the doll

5. Flydown

6. Playing at horses

7. Hop, stride, and jump

8. Whipping top

9. Bathing

10. Battledore and shuttlecock

11. Blindman's buff

12. Flying the kite

13. Peg top

14. Trundling a hoop

15. Drawing the coach

16. Tossing the ball

17. Cricket

18. Playing at taw

19. Balancing

20. Skating

21. Badger the bull

22. Swinging

23. Skipping

24. The young mouse. A fable.

Notes:

Engraved title page, followed by eleven leaves of plates, printed on one side only. Each leaf contains two engraved illustrations; the illustrations are numbered 1-22. the letterpress text (p. [25]-59) comprises 24 numbered sections. The first 22 sections correspond to the 22 illustrations. The 23rd section ("Skipping") seems a description of an illustration, though none exists. The 24th section ("The young mouse") is a fable.

Another impression has ornamental woodcuts on p. 59 and [60], and colophon on p. [60]: John Bioren, printer. In the present impression, the colophon and woodcuts are not present. The two impressions are not distinguished by Shaw & Shoemaker, Welch, or Rosenbach.

"Jacob Johnson, no. 147, Market Street, has now for sale, the greatest variety of useful and entertaining books, ever offered for the instruction of the American youth."--bookseller's advertisement, p. [60].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 3605).

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