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The boy's book of sports and games : containing rules and directions for the practice of the principal recreative amusements of youth / by Uncle John, author of "The little boy's own book," et cetera et cetera.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- John, Uncle, author.
- Aikin, John, 1747-1822, author.
- Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Games--Juvenile literature.
- Games.
- Sports--Juvenile literature.
- Sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : George S. Appleton, 1851.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- "We have confined ourselves to those sports which prevail in our own country"--Preface, page [3]. An adaptation for American readers of William Clarke's Boy's own book.
- Attributed by the Library of Congress, possibly erroneously, to John Aikin and Anna Barbauld, who wrote jointly under the pseudonym "Uncle John."
- Includes publisher's catalog, [16] pages following text.
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 50909666
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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