Perkins, Henry, 1803-1889, publisher., Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, printer., McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) · Philadelphia : H. Perkins, 134 Chestnut Street, MDCCCXXXVIII [1838] · leaf 11
To furnish the 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 re- creative entertainment, without having recourse to any of the vulgar modes of killing time,…
Juvenile literature · Scientific recreations
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