Rare Books and ManuscriptsQ164 .P24 1838Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
The title page is wood-engraved.Wood engravings by Ebenezer Landells.Opie, K 62BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's blind- and gold-stamped brown cloth. Includes publisher's advertisements, [2] pages at end."To furnish ingenious youth with the means of relieving the tediousness of a long winter's, or a wet summer's evening -- to enable him to provide, for a party of juvenile friends, instructive as well as recreative entertainment, without having recourse to any vulgar modes of killing time ... to inform without being dryly scientific, by imparting interesting facts, to stimulate the young experimentalist into the laws that regulate them, -- by aiding him to acquire dexterity of practice, to smooth the road to the development of principles, -- and, above all, to enable him to escape an imputation which every boy of spirit would consider the depth of disgrace, -- that of being 'No Conjuror!'"--Preface.
Contents:
Transmutation -- Sight and sound -- Light and heat -- Gas and steam -- Fire, water, and air -- Sleights and subtleties -- Melange.
Subject Terms:
Scientific recreations -- Juvenile literature. | Magic tricks -- Juvenile literature. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Magic tricks. | Scientific recreations.