Book of riddles and five hundred home amusements : containing a choice and curious collection of riddles, charades, enigmas, rebuses, anagrams, transpositions, conundrums, amusing puzzles, queer sleights, recreations in arithmetic, fireside games, and natural magic, embracing entertaining amusements in magnetism, chemistry, second sight, and simple recreations in science for family and social pastime
A parlor-amusement compendium of riddles, puzzles, conundrums and home science tricks credited to conjurer Wiljalba Frikell, published by Dick & Fitzgerald in New York in 1863 for family and social evenings. The wood engravings are small instructional vignettes: cuffed hands holding pendulums, bells and balanced sticks, plus sectioned diagrams of jars and tubes, all built from close hatching—useful as cutout gesture figures and apparatus schematics.
