The boy's book of sports and games
Subtitle: containing rules and directions for the practice of the principal recreative amusements of youth
By: by Uncle John, author of "The little boy's own book," etc. etc
Contributors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822, author; Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825, author; Clarke, William, 1800-1838
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: George S. Appleton
Published: 1851
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Copyright date: 1850
Subjects: Games; Juvenile literature; Sports
Notes: "We have confined ourselves to those sports which prevail in our own country"--Preface, page [3]. An adaptation for American readers of William Clarke's Boy's own book.

Attributed by the Library of Congress, possibly erroneously, to John Aikin and Anna Barbauld, who wrote jointly under the pseudonym "Uncle John."

Includes publisher's catalog, [16] pages following text.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.