The art of amusing : being a collection of graceful arts, merry games, odd tricks, curious puzzles, and new charades : together with suggestions for private theatricals, tableaux, and all sorts of parlor and family amusements
A parlor-entertainment manual by American cartoonist Frank Bellew, published in New York and London in 1866 for middle-class families staging games, tricks, charades and tableaux at home. Wood engravings show gloved hands rigged into shadow figures, men in frock coats tumbling and demonstrating stunts, cut-paper silhouettes, and diagrams of props, with heavy hatched shadows and solid black shapes useful as spot illustration.
