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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Boy's Book of Sports or Exercises and Pastimes of Youth |
| Date | 1838 |
| Record ID | 225487 |
| Collection Name | Chapbooks |
| Reference | CL-PamB793B7241838 |
| Theme | Leisure and Play Gender and Sex Race, Ethnicity and Racism |
| Library of Congress Subject | Games Sports Sex role Indians of North America |
| Genre | Non-Fiction |
| Publisher | Babcock, S |
| Places | New Haven |
| Document Type | Chapbook Pamphlet |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1838 Books for boys Chapbooks--1838 |
| Size | 24 p. : ill. ; 15 cm |
| Page Numbers | 24 p. : |
| Catalog Notes | Selected "from the 'Boys own book,' a beautiful London work, but too expensive for the purses of the little folks for whom these pages are designed. To these we have added some sports which are common only to the boys of our country"--Preface, p. [4]. An adaptation for American readers of William Clarke's Boy's own book. In printed wrapper. Wood-engraving, p. [4] of wrapper, signed by Alexander Anderson. |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
| Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |
| Catalog Record Note | Catalog Records (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |