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How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book / by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8133
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beard, Lina, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amusements.
- Decorative arts--Juvenile literature.
- Decorative arts.
- Handicraft--Juvenile literature.
- Handicraft.
- Holidays--United States--Juvenile literature.
- Holidays.
- Interior decoration.
- interior decoration.
- interior design.
- United States.
- Genre:
- pictorial cloth bindings.
- publishers' cloth bindings.
- Juvenile works
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
- Juvenile literature.
- Pictorial cloth bindings.
- Publishers' cloth bindings.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 474, [6] pages : illustrations (wood-engravings) ; 21 cm
- Production:
- New York : Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company
- Other Title:
- American girl's handy book.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887
- Notes:
- Includes preface, table of contents, index.
- Illustrations by the authors; variously signed LB or AB.
- Publisher's advertisements: [6] p. following text.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8133: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Caroline F. Schimmel bookplate on front pastedown.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Beard, Lina. How to amuse yourself and others.
- OCLC:
- 3261346
- Online:
- Additional information and access via Open Library
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