The boy\s own toy-maker: a practical illustrated guide to the useful employment of leasure hours

Ebenezer Landells. · 1881 · 14 pictures

A practical handbook by Ebenezer Landells, published 1881, instructing boys in making their own toys—kites, boats, balls, paper constructions—from household materials at home. Wood-engraved figures mix diagrammatic line work (numbered plans, dashed fold lines, geometric frameworks) with small shaded vignettes of finished balls and playthings, offering designers ready cutting patterns, construction diagrams and hatched object studies at printer's-cut scale.

Toys · Amusements 19th century

Internet Archive · Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC), United States Patent and Trademark Office · Public domain (published before 1931)

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