Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 1st October 1884, Edition 1 of 1, Page 991

' THE BOOK WHICH ENGLISH LADS TARE MOST DELIGHT IN . ' ¦ - ¦¦ ¦ ?????»»?????????»??? ¦ -. . ¦ - ¦ ——Will be ready in October , Imperial \ 6 mo . Ti ^ pp . with upwards of 600 Illustrations and Ten Vignette Titles printed in gold , price 8 s . 6 d . handsomely bound . il ENTIRELY FEW EDITION , REYISED AUD PARTLY EE-TOETTEir , OF THE BOY'S OWN BOOK . A COMPLETE ENCYCLOP / EDIA OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES , 33 ATHLETIC , SCIENTIFIC , AND RECREATIVE . j ^ pMany improvements are included in this Edition , the principal cf which comprise the Latest Laws 0 / Lawn Tennis , Football , Cricket , Chess , cfc . ; additions to the Articles on Rowing , Billiards , < 2 fc . ; and an entirely new Article on Cycling . THE FOLLOWING IS K SELECTION FROM ITS VARIED CONTENTS : — MINOK SPORTS . —Games with Marbles , Tops , Ball 0 , & c . ; Sports of Agility and Speed ; Indoor Sports , S ports with Toys , & c . <& c . ATHXETIC SPORTS . —Iiawm Tennis , Badminton , Base Ball , La Crosse , Cricket , Golf , Shinty , "Football , Croquet , Hockey , Rackets and Fives , Tennis , Bowls , Quoits , and Skittles , Fencing , Broadsword and Singlestick , Archery , Riding , Driving , Bicycling , Tricycling , Gymnastics , Dumb Bells , Indian Clubs , Boxing , Wrestling , & c . & c . THE KATTTRAIiIST . —Singing Birds , Talking Birds , Rabbits , Guinea Pigs , Dogs , Poultry , Pigeons , Squirrels , I Bees , Silkworms , Aquarium , Gardening , & c . dec . I SCIENT The Chem I Stereoscope FIC istry , Fireworks RK , CRBXTIOMTS < fec . & , Aerostatics c . , . Acoustics —Arithmetical , Pnenmatfcd , Magnetism , Optic , , The Electricity Microscope , Galvanism , The Telescope , Electro , Photography -Magnetism , j DBAWI Acting ITG Proverbs -ROOM Sic G . & -AMES c . . —Shadow Pantomimes , Acting Charades , Tableaux Vivants , Definitions , Forfeits , , AQITA . TIC SPORTS . —Angling , Swimming , Rowing , Sailing , Skating , Indoor Skating , Curling , & c . & c-OAMES OF SKIIiIi . —Chess , Draughts , Dominoes , Solitaire , Fox and Geese , Bagatelle , Billiards , « fcc . & c . I LEGERDEMAIN " . —Easy Tricks , Tricks with Money , Tricks with Cards , Special Apparatus , Paradoxes Puzzles , & o . & c . , SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON FORMER EDITIONS . Brought ' " The up Boy to the ' s Own presen Book t day " , has it is had itself many alon imitators e , thb book , but for they boys have !—Bally been ' s but Magazine puny counterfeits of Sports . . . . . « e greates '" The t Boy interest ' s Own . '— Book Civil " Skrvicii is still the Gazkttk book . which English lads take most delight in , and read with , b T * k out * in " ^ a ° new C ^ and < 1 S much * ' Boy enlarged ' s Own Book form . " To is the name real it ori is to ginal praise work it . * wh —Saturday ich we knew Revikw in days . long gone I *^ n ° W favourite , whom we have hugged to our infantile breast , we should hardly like to say how II ev ^ ^^^ 8 ° * " ^ charming repertoire of games , puzzles , sports , and recreations suitable for II II I • ' It Not condition is one still amongst p eer climate less ita ! . ri . vals a . sunshiny More —not truly half day -a than - dozen eve of doors of r the thorn , lawgi or rolled a ver dull into of foggy the one p — layground can inside match /— /— our Stfif Graphic old . favourite . . II " ~~ " •"""¦— " ¦ " - ^~—•—————————————^—•—" iCROSBY LOCK WOOD & CO ., 7 Stationers ' -Hall Court , Ludgato Hill , E . C .

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