Charades (2 Ergebnisse)
[Scottish Puzzle Book; Printed item.] Evening Pastimes; or, Amusements for Hearths and Homes: A Magazine of Fun and Frolic; Containing Parlour Games and Forfeits, Riddles, Enigmas, Charades, Conundrums, Practical Puzzles, and Paradoxes, [.]
[Victorian Scottish puzzle book; parlour games; charades; riddles, pastimes; Cameron & Co., publishers, Glasgow, Scotland]
Verlag: Glasgow: Cameron & Co. Publishers and sold by all booksellers. s? 1880
- Softcover
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes KönigreichRichard M. Ford Ltd
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EUR 143,21
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128pp., 12mo. In original wraps, with 11.5 x 7 cm label pasted on cover with coloured illustration of a man performing a magic trick for a group of ladies, beneath the title 'EVENING PASTIMES | OR AMUSEMENTS FOR | HEARTHS AND HOMES'. In fair condition, a tight copy on aged paper, in worn wraps. Ownership stamp of the Sussex orni…thologist H. L. F. Guermonprez on front free endpaper. After '[.] Puzzles, and Paradoxes,' the title continues: 'With a Series of Comic Lessons for Fireside Recreation.' Among the sections are 'Transposition of Letters', 'Conundrums', 'Enigmas and Riddles', 'Charades', 'Practical Puzzles and Paradoxes' and 'The Alliterative Lesson'. The second half of the volume is devoted to 'Parlour Games'. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on OCLC, and the only copy on COPAC at the National Library of Scotland, by which it is tentatively dated to the 1880s. See Image.
Weitere BilderVerlag: London Longman Hurst Rees & Orme 1806
- Hardcover
Anbieter: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, Vereinigtes KönigreichRoger Middleton P.B.F.A.
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EUR 179,01
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NEW EDITION 1806. Small 8vo in sixes, approximately 155 x 95 mm, 6 x 3¾ inches, pages: title page, [1]-230, (which includes solutions to the enigmas, charades, transpositions, and queries), last page errata followed by 6 pages of adverts, bound in full calf, rebacked in lighter leather, stained black at head and tail to try to m…atch covers, gilt title and decoration to spine, gilt decoration to edges of covers, marbled endpapers and edges. Binding rubbed, corners slightly worn, gilt title slightly tarnished, light foxing throughout, slightly heavier on 2 pages, pale stain affecting 6 pages, 3 to inner margins, 2 small brown spots to 2 lower blank margins, neat pencil presentation inscription to top margin of title page, otherwise a very good copy. See: ESTC N5821; and NSTC series I & ll. Originally published in 1791. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
