Fascinating Mid 19th C. British "Child's Playbook" with All Sorts of Elaborate Games Tel Aviv dressed all in black

dressed all in black

but the binding is good on the rest

and with a super long tail

and yelling "it's not fair" as she runs

Fascinating Mid 19th C. British "Child's Playbook" with All Sorts of Elaborate Games Tel Aviv dressed all in blackI found this one in a rare book store in Portland this past week and have become rather obsessed with it! There is no title page or publisher's information inside so I'm not certain of the date, but between the hand laid type and the engravings and the embossed spine, I'm guessing 1840s or 50s, and British. What's fascinating is the very elaborate and often quite fabulous nature of the games described mostly parlor type games that range from an early